One of the ethical issues that cause concern in the conduct of psychological investigations is that of deception. Deception is sometimes said to be crucial in research otherwise some research would not be possible. Looking at Milgram's investigation of obedience deception is used a lot. To start with when Milgram put an advert in the paper, looking for participants, and said it was an experiment looking at learning, memory and punishment. This was deception, as he wasn't looking at this at all, he was looking at obedience. He is misleading with his goal. The next way he was deceitful...
obedience would they try and be more or less obedient, or would they just follow their instincts? I don't think that they would follow their instincts but they would try and please the experimenter. This would mean that obedience would go up which would give completely unrealistic results as no one would act as they would in 'real' life. This would make the study completely meaningless and Milgram's experiment wouldn't show anything about a person's obedience. I think this proves that sometimes deception is crucial in some research to gain results that otherwise would not be possible.