OCR A level Psychology Core Study: Milgram (1963)

As a member of the Jewish community, who's family had left Europe for the US to escape the Nazi atrocities, Milgram was interested in ______.

• destructive obedience

• constructive obedience
• blind obedience
• negotiated obedience

Early research into the Holocaust suggested the atrocities could be attributed to the German culture. This is known as a ________.

• dispositional hypothesis
• situational hypothesis
• directional hypothesis
• experimental hypothesis

Milgram (1963) believed social processes were responsible for the atrocities not individual characteristics. This is know as a _________.

• dispositional hypothesis
• situational hypothesis
• directional hypothesis
• experimental hypothesis

The aim of Milgram's (1963) study was to investigate how obedient people would be to orders from person in authority that would result in ______.

• pain and harm to another person
• pain and harm to themselves
• no pain or harm to another person
• pain and harm for everyone

More specifically, Milgram's (1963) aim was to see how large ____ participants would give to ____ when ordered to by a scientist in his own lab.

• an electric shock; a helpless man
• a wet sock; a hapless man
• an electric shock; a hapless man
• an electric shock; a harmless man

Milgram's (1963) study could best be described as a _____ because it had only one condition.

• pre-experiment
• lab experiment
• field experiment
• natural experiment

Milgram's (1963) dependent variable was ______.

• obedience
• the presence of an authority figure
• proximity of the authority figure
• status of the institution

Milgram's (1963) used a ______ sample. Participants were paid $4.50 each after they had been recruited through newspaper adverts.

• volunteer
• random
• stratified
• systematic

Milgram's (1963) sample consisted of ___ aged between _____.

• 40; 20 - 50
• 50: 30 - 60
• 30: 20 - 60
• 60; 25 - 55

Milgram's (1963) participants were guaranteed to be the teacher because _____.

• the drawing of lots was rigged
• none wanted to be the learner
• the other participant wanted to be the learner
• the confederate (learner) couldn't read