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2. How many people were used in the main experiment and what type of person where they?

  • 149 and undergraduate students
  • 139 and manual workers
  • 119 and professionals
  • 92 and phD students

3. What was the instruction given in to experiment?

  • To write letters to students encouraging them to partake in a sensory deprivation experiment
  • To ask questions and if answered incorrectly to give eletric shocks
  • To watch films of car crashes and rate how fast the car was going
  • To see the effects of noise on the effectiveness of revision

4. What % of participants actually blew the whistle

  • 3.6%
  • 64.5%
  • 9.4%
  • 43.9%

5. What was the main aim of the study

  • To investigate the role of disppostional factors in obediance, diobediance and whistleblowing
  • To investigate rates of obediance,disobedience and whistleblowing where no physical violence is involved.
  • To investigate the accuracy of people's estimates of obediance,disobediance and whistleblowing
  • To investigate how the role of situational factors in obediance, disobediance and whistleblowing

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