MILGRAM STUDY

TRUE or FALSE: Milgram believed that from a young age we are socialised to be obedient to authority figures.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Subsequent to Milgram's study he produced his agency theory having two psychological states of ; agentic state and autonomous state. Which one refers to when we act on our own free will.

• agentic state

• autonomous state

Name three (3) people Milgram's experiment consist of.

• researcher, participant, confederate

• experimenter, teacher, learner

TRUE or FALSE:

In Milgram's study, OBEDIENCE is operationalise as the maximum voltage given.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In MILGRAM'S experiment; The _________ would sit at a desk at the back of the room, the teacher would sit at a desk with a shock generator on it, which he believed was connected to the learner who was situated in another room.

• researcher

• experimenter

• confederate

What were the participants told the experiment was about?

• They were told that the experiment was about the effects of punishment of learning.

• It is about how obedient people would be in following orders from people with authority

• To investigate how large an electric shock a participant would give to a helpless man when ordered.

What was the range of electric shocks given ?

• from 30 to 300 volts

• From 15 to 150 volts

• From 14 to 450 volts.

• from 15 volts to 450 volts

_______ was the 31 year old biology teacher in Milgram's study. His manner during the study was to be impassive with somewhat stern appearance.

• experimenter

• Mr. Wallace

• the accountant

The researcher created a standardised _____ for the experimenter to say in an attempt to force the participant to continue.

• answers

• responses

• prods

• prompts

_________ data was gathered in the form of comments and protests participants made during the procedure and in the form of obsrvations of their body language.

• quantitative

• qualitative