Question 1

Your professor tells the class to close and put up their books and take out a pen or pencil to take the test. If you follow your professor's instructions, you

Accepted Answer

Following the professor's instructions in this context is an example of obedience, which refers to complying with the commands or instructions of someone in authority.

Question 2

In Milgram's follow-up experiments, when real subjects saw two other "teachers" (both actors)resist orders and walk out of the experiment, what percent of the participants continued to obey?

Accepted Answer

The answer of In Milgram's follow-up experiments, when real subjects...

Question 3

When the participants in Milgram's experiment were face to face with the learner and had to force the learner's hand down on a simulated "shock plate,"

Accepted Answer

When participants had to physically force the learner's hand onto a shock plate, compliance with the experimenter's orders to deliver shocks decreased, illustrating the impact of proximity on obedience.

Question 4

When Milgram's study was rerun away from Yale University in a shabby office building in nearby Bridgeport, Connecticut, the number of participants who obeyed

Accepted Answer

The change in location from Yale University to a shabby office building in Bridgeport, Connecticut, resulted in a decrease in obedience to 48 percent, but this was considered only a minor reduction statistically, indicating that the location's prestige was not the sole factor influencing participants' willingness to obey.

Question 5

Who designed the experiment in which a "teacher" gave shocks to a "learner," but which was actually designed to assess the obedience of the "teacher"?

Accepted Answer

Stanley Milgram designed the obedience experiment where a "teacher" administered shocks to a "learner" to study obedience to authority figures.

Question 6

Regarding Milgram's experiments, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

In Milgram's experiments, the "teachers" were led to believe that they were administering electric shocks to the "learners" as part of a learning experiment, although no actual shocks were given. The "learners" were confederates of the experiment who pretended to be shocked.

Question 7

In the original Milgram experiment, what percent of the "teachers" administered "shocks" all the way to the 450-volt level?

Accepted Answer

In the original Milgram experiment, 65 percent of the "teachers" administered the shocks all the way to the 450-volt level, demonstrating a high level of obedience to authority figures even when actions conflicted with personal conscience.

Question 8

Puzzled as to how Nazi soldiers, who had once been average citizens, could slaughter six million people in concentration camps, the psychologist who began a provocative series of experiments on obedience was

Accepted Answer

Stanley Milgram conducted the famous obedience experiments in the 1960s to understand how ordinary people could commit atrocities under authority, inspired by the actions of Nazi soldiers during the Holocaust.

Question 9

Asch is to conformity as Milgram is to

Accepted Answer

Milgram is associated with obedience due to his famous experiment on obedience to authority figures, which demonstrated how people are willing to follow orders even when they cause harm to others.

Question 10

Regarding obedience, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

The false statement is that truly inhumane acts do not result from "just following orders," but occur due to character flaws and heartless psychopathic behavior. Research, including the famous Milgram experiment, has shown that ordinary people can commit inhumane acts under the influence of authority, challenging the notion that such acts are solely the result of individual character flaws or psychopathy.

Question 11

Subjects in Milgram's experiment who gave the highest level of shocks rationalized that they were NOT personally responsible for their actions. This raises questions about our willingness to commit inhumane acts as a result of

Accepted Answer

Milgram's experiment demonstrated how individuals could perform acts against their personal conscience under the influence of perceived legitimate authority, highlighting the powerful role of obedience in human behavior.

Question 12

Regarding obedience, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

The classic studies on obedience were actually conducted by Stanley Milgram, not B. F. Skinner. Milgram's experiments took place at Yale University in the early 1960s, focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.

Question 13

In Milgram's studies, which of the following circumstances listed resulted in the SMALLEST percentage of subjects obeying the orders of the authority?

Accepted Answer

When the teacher received orders by phone, the physical and psychological distance between the authority figure and the participant increased, leading to the smallest percentage of subjects obeying the orders. This condition made it easier for participants to resist authority as the immediacy and pressure of the authority figure were reduced.

Question 14

The results of the obedience experiments showed that greater distance from the authority as well as a person having group support for their decision tended to __________ obedience.

Accepted Answer

Greater distance from the authority figure and having group support for resisting orders both tend to decrease obedience, as shown in studies like those conducted by Stanley Milgram.

Question 15

When the participants in Milgram's experiment received their orders over the phone, they

Accepted Answer

When the authority figure was not physically present and gave orders over the phone, participants in Milgram's experiment showed less obedience, indicating the importance of the authority's physical presence in eliciting compliance.

Question 16

If one person in a group begins to resist the orders of a legitimate authority, other people are more likely to

Accepted Answer

When one person in a group begins to resist the orders of a legitimate authority, it can embolden others to also question or disobey the authority, as it breaks the consensus of compliance and can make dissent seem more permissible or justified.

Question 17

Before the Milgram experiment was conducted, a group of psychiatrists predicted that

Accepted Answer

Psychiatrists predicted that less than one percent of participants would obey the authority figure to the point of administering the highest shock level in the Milgram experiment, but the actual result was that about 65 percent of participants obeyed completely.

Question 18

Stanley Milgram's experiment in which a "teacher" gave shocks to a "learner" was actually designed to assess

Accepted Answer

Milgram's experiment was designed to assess obedience to authority figures, demonstrating how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.

Question 19

Which of the following was a significant factor in determining the degree of obedience in Milgram's series of experiments?

Accepted Answer

The distance between the teacher and the experimenter was a significant factor in Milgram's experiments, as it affected the level of obedience shown by participants.

Question 20

In one of his experiments, Milgram had two actors portray "teachers" resisting orders and walking out of the experiment in front of the other "teachers" who were real subjects. Milgram found that when the real subjects viewed this resistance to an authority, they were more likely to

Accepted Answer

Milgram's experiment demonstrated that witnessing acts of resistance to authority by peers can embolden individuals to also resist authoritative commands. In this scenario, seeing the actors (posing as fellow teachers) refuse to continue with the experiment's demands led real participants to feel more empowered to disobey the authority figure themselves.

Quiz 16: Social Thinking and Social Influence

Your professor tells the class to close and put up their books and take out a pen or pencil to take the test. If you follow your professor's instructions, you

In Milgram's follow-up experiments, when real subjects saw two other "teachers" (both actors) resist orders and walk out of the experiment, what percent of the participants continued to obey?

When the participants in Milgram's experiment were face to face with the learner and had to force the learner's hand down on a simulated "shock plate,"

When Milgram's study was rerun away from Yale University in a shabby office building in nearby Bridgeport, Connecticut, the number of participants who obeyed

Who designed the experiment in which a "teacher" gave shocks to a "learner," but which was actually designed to assess the obedience of the "teacher"?

Regarding Milgram's experiments, which of the following statements is TRUE?

In the original Milgram experiment, what percent of the "teachers" administered "shocks" all the way to the 450-volt level?

Puzzled as to how Nazi soldiers, who had once been average citizens, could slaughter six million people in concentration camps, the psychologist who began a provocative series of experiments on obedience was

Asch is to conformity as Milgram is to

Regarding obedience, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Subjects in Milgram's experiment who gave the highest level of shocks rationalized that they were NOT personally responsible for their actions. This raises questions about our willingness to commit inhumane acts as a result of

Regarding obedience, which of the following statements is FALSE?

In Milgram's studies, which of the following circumstances listed resulted in the SMALLEST percentage of subjects obeying the orders of the authority?

The results of the obedience experiments showed that greater distance from the authority as well as a person having group support for their decision tended to __________ obedience.

When the participants in Milgram's experiment received their orders over the phone, they

If one person in a group begins to resist the orders of a legitimate authority, other people are more likely to

Before the Milgram experiment was conducted, a group of psychiatrists predicted that

Stanley Milgram's experiment in which a "teacher" gave shocks to a "learner" was actually designed to assess

Which of the following was a significant factor in determining the degree of obedience in Milgram's series of experiments?

In one of his experiments, Milgram had two actors portray "teachers" resisting orders and walking out of the experiment in front of the other "teachers" who were real subjects. Milgram found that when the real subjects viewed this resistance to an authority, they were more likely to