Background
This social psychologist conducted the famous obedience experiment at Yale University.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
Participants were instructed to increase the shock each time the learner did this.
What is give a wrong answer?
Participants continued shocking mainly because they felt pressure from this source.
What is authority?
Participants were misled about the true purpose of the experiment.
What is deception?
The state in which a person acts according to their own beliefs and takes personal responsibility for their actions rather than following orders from an authority figure.
What is the autonomous state?
Milgram conducted his experiment shortly after this historical event raised questions about obedience to authority.
What is the Holocaust?
The actor pretending to receive shocks was called this.
What is the learner?
Many participants showed signs of this emotional state during the experiment.
What is stress or nervousness?
Participants believed they were causing harm, which raised concerns about this issue.
What is distress?
When people feel less responsible for their actions because someone else is in charge.
Hint: Think of an agent
What is the agentic state?
The main goal of Milgram’s study was to investigate this behavior in relation to authority.
What is obedience?
The person wearing the lab coat who instructed the participant to continue the experiment.
Who is the experimenter?
Milgram concluded that ordinary people are capable of this when instructed by authority.
What is obeying harmful orders?
Participants were not clearly told they could do this during the experiment.
What is withdraw?
A person who secretly works with the researcher and pretends to be another participant in the study.
What is a confederate?
The university where Milgram first conducted his experiment.
What is Yale University?
Participants were assigned the role of this person who delivered electric shocks.
What is the teacher?
One surprising result was that participants continued even after the learner stopped responding, showing strong ______ to authority.
What is obedience?
Participants were exposed to intense tension during the experiment, which raised concerns about this ethical principle that requires researchers to keep participants safe from harm.
What is protection from harm?
Participants were recruited using this method through newspaper ads.
What is volunteer sampling?
Participants volunteered for this study under a false aim
What is a study on memory?
The highest voltage level on the shock generator
What is 450 volts?
Percentage of participants who continued to the maximum shock level.
What is about 65%?
Modern ethical guidelines now require this before participants take part in research.
What is informed consent?
The set of instructions the experimenter used to encourage participants to continue.
What are prods?