This study involved requesting that a participant teach another, a research confederate, and use shock as a negative reinforcement if the learner (research confederate) responded incorrectly (which he or she was instructed to do).

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This study closely matches the Milgram Study on Obedience which involved participants being instructed to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to a learner (a research confederate) for incorrect responses in a memory test. The study aimed to investigate obedience to authority figures even when it went against the participants' own morality.

This Study Involved Requesting That a Participant Teach Another, a Research