Milgram Experiment

In Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority, the participants believed the responsibility for the shocks fell to:

• The machine

• The participants themselves

• The authority figure

• Their fellow participants

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?

• 75%

• 15%

• 50%

• 65%

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

• That people aren't important in experiments

• That people were willing to obey orders to hurt others

• That ethics in science don't matter

• that guards are mean to prisonerT

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist who studied:

• Family relationships

• Memory

• Ethics

• Obedience to authority

In the original experiment, all of the participants were...

• Men

• Women

• Children

• Elderly

Where did the experiment take place?

• Harvard University

• Stanford University

• Columbia University

• Yale University

How can this study be applied to real life and training?

• Trainees will learn better through punishment

• Trainees are asked to punish each other

• Trainees will blindly follow what you ask of them

• Trainees are the authority figure