SH Yr 12 Week 4 - Milgram and RM

In MIlgram the teacher was instructed to shock the learner whenever...

• the learner was too slow to respond

• the authority figure asked them to

• they felt like shocking the learner

• the learner got the question wrong

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

• The machine

• The participants themselves

• The authority figure

• Their fellow participants

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%

In the original Milgram experiment, all of the participants were...

• Men

• Women

• Children

• Elderly

Where did the Milgram experiment take place?

• Harvard University

• Stanford University

• Columbia University

• Yale University

Out of 40 subjects in Milgram's original experiement, ___ obeyed the orders of the experimenter to the end, proceeding to punish the victim.

• 26
• 15
• 10
• 31

How many participants were involved in Milgram's original experiment?

• 60

• 20

• 40

• 30

in Milgram's original experiment, participants were told the purpose of the experiment was ...

• to see how people learn better through punishment.

• to see if ordinary people could give innocent people harmful electric shocks.

• to see what level of electric shock an individual could experience safely.

In Milgram's original experiment, participants were allocated the roles of ...

• teachers

• learners

• a mixture of both

In Milgram's experiment, the teachers were told the electric shocks would ...

• be painful and potentially harmful.

• be very dangerous.

• be painful but not dangerous.

• cause no discomfort to the learners.