Milgram QUIZ

Unit 2

Milgram obedience Quiz

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Question 1/10

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

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Question 2/10

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

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Question 3/10

Each participant in Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority tested their willingness to:

Abandon their trust of machines

Push their tolerance for pain

Ignore their technical expertise

Disobey their personal conscience

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Question 4/10

Why was Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority so controversial?

Milgram was not actually a scientist

One of the people shocked died

The participants were asked to chock people

The participants were paid to take part

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Question 5/10

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?

65%

75%

15%

50%

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Question 6/10

What did the results of Milgram's famous experiment show?

That people aren't important in experiments

That ethics in science don't matter

That guards are mean to prisoners

That people are willing to obey orders to hurt others

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Question 7/10

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist who studied:

Family relationships

Obedience to authority

memory

ethics

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Question 8/10

Which of these is an ethical concern of Milgram's experiment?

all of these

the P's might have had inflicted insight due to the study

P's shook and were upset during the experiemtn

P's might have had trauma afterwards

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Question 9/10

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 volume of yelling from 'learner'

change loacation from uni to a shop

change how close the 'teacher' was sitting next to the 'learner'

change where P's are from to Europe

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Question 10/10

The Milgram experiment was carried out...

at the onset of WW ||

After WW ||

during WW ||

during the Korean war

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