Obedience

Obedience

Multiple Choice

Who conducted a famous experiment on obedience?

• Leon Festinger

• Solomon Ashe

• Stanley Milgram

• Philip Zimbardo

Multiple Choice

Why was the experimenter so interested in studying obedience?

• He wanted to understand why children obey parents

• He wanted to how stress impacts our internal development

• It was the topic he was assigned, but he ended up doing a ground breaking study

• Nazi soldiers often had the excuse 'I was just following orders' as a reason for Holocaust

Multiple Choice

Changing opinions, behaviors, or judgements because someone in authority tells you to do so is:

• Obedience

• Compliance

• Conformity

• Central Persuasion

Multiple Choice

True or False: Participants were not actually shocked during the Milgram experiment

• True, they were not shocked.

• False, they definitely were shocked!

Poll

Not graded: what percent of participants do you think administered shocks at the highest level? (450 volts)

• 0-10%

• 15-20%

• 25-33%

• 45-50%

• 60-65%

Multiple Choice

What did Milgram find in his study?

• Ordinary people are willing to go against authority when told to harm another person

• Only people with anger or esteem issues will listen to authority when it comes to harming others

• Ordinary people will often listen to authority figures even if it means harming another

Multiple Choice

True/False: The number of people willing to shock/harm others due to obedience was about what Milgram expected

• True, he figured the results would be as they were.

• False, he thought far more people would administer the shock

• False, he was...well, shocked...at how many people went to 450 volts.

Multiple Choice

Why was debriefing an ethical concern in this study?

• People who were shocked did not get full compensation

• People who were the 'teachers' often left feeling like they caused harm to another person

• The experimenter did not allow the participant to leave.

Multiple Choice

True/False: This study is not likely to be repeated due to ethical concerns.

• True

• False