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What are the aims of obedience? Pick three

• Obedience guarantees that orders will be followed

• Allows the hierarchy structure to function

• Makes establishing conformity easier

• To create individuals who do what they are told when they are told without questioning the orders

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

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

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

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