Social Psych

What is obedience

• Doing as you are told

• Giving in to group pressure

• Its how the source behaves

• Aligning your behaviour with friends

The true participant in the Milgram study is referred to as

• Mr Prozzi

• Learner

• Teacher

• Milgram

This % went to 450v in Milgram study

• 0%

• 65%

• 100%

• 1%

Where did the original procedure take place?

• Yale University

• Downtown office

• Bridgeport University

• Harvard University

Participants shocked the learner because they were evil

• True

• False

How did Milgram explain the blind obedience

• Only 15v increments

• Presence of authority

• Ps were in an agentic state

• All of these

The agentic shift is when

• People do as they are told

• People move from autonomous to agentic

• people move from agentic to autonomous

• People feel moral strain

When were participants allowed to leave

• When the University closed for the night

• When they reached 300v

• If they wanted to

• After they had received 5 verbal prompts

In Variation 10

• 48% went to 450v

• 100% went to 450v

• 0% went to 450v

• Nobody went past 300v

In variation 7

• 100% obeyed

• People lied about the voltage they were giving

• They asked lots of questions about the study

• The lab was sparsely furnished