WorksheetsMilgram
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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
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 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
In the original experiment, all of the participants were...
men
women
children
the elderly
What was the aim to Milgram's study?
To see if ordinary people could stand being given harmful electric shots.
To test the average persons ability to make a important decision on there own.
To investigate whether ordinary people would follow orders and give an innocent person a potentially harmful electric shock.
How many participants were involved in the experiment?
60
20
40
30
Where did the experiment take place?
Harvard University
Stanford University
Columbia University
Yale University
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.
The participants were allocated the roles of ...
teachers
learners
a mixture of both
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.
Participants were asked to teach ...
math equations.
retention of matching rhyming words.
retention of matched paired words.
The maximum voltage of available electric shocks to be given were ...
350v
500v
450v
400v
The experimenter used a series of ...
facial expressions.
verbal prods.
hand signals.
How was the experiment not reliable?
Sometimes the experimenter had to prod 20 times before the participants were allowed to leave.
Only some participants were given verbal prods.
None of the participants were allowed to stop shocking.
How was the experiment internally Valid?
All participants were allowed to drop out at any point.
There was no bias, because the participants had no idea what was really going on.
The participants weren't really being electric shocked.
What could make the study not internally valid?
The participants secretly did not believe the electric shocks to be real.
The participants were told the electric shocks were real.
The participants could hear the screams from the learners.
What is one ethical issue with these study?
The participants were told the whole truth about the study.
The experimenter was deceptive when explaining the study to the participants.
The participants were put at risk of physical harm.
How has this study been applied to a real life situation?
Within pilot training officers have failed to challenge the mistakes of their Captain.
Teachers have been asked to carryout this experiment in their classrooms.
Experimenters are now allowed to electric shock participants without ethical guidance.
