If you were a participant in Milgram's original obedience experiment,it is very likely that you would
A) play the role of the teacher and get to "shock" the learner.
B) play the role of the learner and be "shocked" by the teacher.
C) have an equal chance of being assigned to the role of either teacher or learner.
D) be given a battery of psychological tests to determine whether you were high or low in conformity.

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In Milgram's original obedience experiment, participants were always assigned the role of the teacher, who was instructed to administer electric shocks to the learner (an actor in collusion with the experimenter) for wrong answers. The setup was designed to study obedience to authority figures, not conformity or the psychological characteristics of the participants.

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