The Milgram Experiment

In Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority, the participants believed the responsibility for the shocks fell to:

• the machine

• themselves

• the authority figure

• their fellow participants

In Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority, many participants administered the shocks because:

• they believed the shocks weren't real

• they respected the professor's authority

• they were told that they had no choice

• they were misled regarding the strength of the shocks

Each participant in Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority tested their willingness to:

• abandon their trust of machines

• disobey their personal conscience

• ignore their technical expertise

• push their tolerance for pain

Why was Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority so controversial?

• Stanley Milgram was not actually a scientist, but rather a sadist

• one of the people being shocked had a heart attack and died

• the participants were asked to shock people

• the participants were paid a lot of money to take part in the experiment

What percentage of participants in Stanley Milgram's study on obedience and authority continued to administer 450-volt shocks at the insistence of the authority figure?

• 75%

• 15%

• 50%

• 65%

What did the results of Milgram's famous experiment show?

• that people aren't important in experiments

• that people were willing to obey orders to hurt others

• that ethics in science don't matter

• that guards are mean to prisoners

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist who studied:

• family relationships

• memory

• ethics

• obedience to authority

Which of these is an ethical concern of Milgram's experiment?

• the participants might have had inflicted insight due to the study

• the participants shook and were upset during the experiment

• the participants might have had trauma afterwards

• all of the answer choices are correct

If you were to replicate Milgram's experiment, what could you do to change the percentage of people who were willing to give the highest shock?

• change how close the "teacher" was sitting next to the "learner"

• change how loudly the "learner" yelled

• change whether the experiment took place in a college or in a backroom of an alleyway

• change whether the participants were from North America or Europe

The Milgram experiment was carried out...

• at the onset of WW II

• during WW II

• after WW II

• during the Korean War