Milgram told the participants that if the question was answered incorrectly, they were to administer an electric shock of increasing intensity as punishment to the individual who gave the wrong answer. However, this was a deception since the subjects of the experiment were in fact the people delivering the electric shocks. (Simply Psychology, 2007). In this case, there was no justification because he did not mention to the participants that the shocks were fake, nor that it was a study of memory and forgetting. (Word Press, 2002). Another ethical problem arises in observational research, the participants were filmed without their