WorksheetsThe Milgram Experiment
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
The results of the experiment showed that...
people are likely to obey orders and commit attrocities if they recongize the authority as having moral or legal rights over them
soldiers obey orders from their superiors without questioning; ordinary people do not
some people are more likely to obey orders than others because they feel no empathy for those who suffer
many people just wanted to be famous and went along with the entire experiment
Explain one reason why some participants decided to stop before 450 volts.
they got bored
they were told to stop the experiment
they felt guilty about "pain" caused to the subject
there was no 450 volt shock listed in the shock generator
Explain one reason why obedience is so vital in a functional society.
people like to obey orders
everyone respects each other
everyone is terrified of authority
people do not want unnecessary confrontation
In the original experiment, all of the participants were...
men
women
children
the elderly
