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6. What was the % of people that withdrew from giving all the shocks

  • 15%
  • 20%
  • 35%
  • 30%

7. What was the potencial weakness in the laboratory studies?

  • The lack of peer pressure
  • The realism
  • The control
  • The reliability

8. What type of experiment was it?

  • Quasi
  • True
  • Laboratory
  • Field

9. What % of participants were manual workers

  • 37.5%
  • 40%
  • 22.5%
  • 65%

10. What % of participants gave the full 450v??

  • 60%
  • 65%
  • 72%
  • 55%

11. What % did psychology students predict would give the full 450v?

  • 12.4%
  • 5.8%
  • 1.2%
  • 23.1%

12. Which was not a possible factor in the situation that contributed to the high levels of obediance seen?

  • The learner appeared to be comfortable with the procedure up to 300v
  • Payment
  • The rights of the participant to withdraw were obvious
  • The participants were assured that the shocks werent dangerous

13. Milgram's research had many practical application

  • Correct
  • Incorrect

14. Context:Early studies of the holocaust focused on the idea.....

  • That the germans used hypnosis to think they were doing the right thing
  • That the holocaust was caused by the anguish all germans felt after WW1
  • That german culture or personality lead to high levels of conformity
  • That the social processes in the situation lead to the conformity

15. What % of volunteers were professionals?

  • 52.6%
  • 5%
  • 22.5%
  • 15%

16. What was one main conclusion drawn from the investigation?

  • Men from a poorer background tended to obey the orders less.
  • People are much more obediant to destructive orders than we might expect
  • People are much less obediant to obey destructive orders than we might exxpect
  • The situation does not trigger a conflict between obeying authority and not harming people

17. What type of results were gathered?

  • Just qualitative
  • None
  • Qualitative AND quantative
  • Just quantative

18. Which part of the environment represented the features of atrocities that could take place?

  • The learner was not seen
  • The casual setting
  • The experimenter was wearing a lab coat
  • The threatening way the experimenter said the orders

19. Volunteers increase representability

  • Incorrect
  • Correct

20. What were four signs participants showed that presented discomfort?

  • Sweating,groaning,biting lips and fidgiting
  • Stuttering,sweating,itching and increased breath rate
  • Groaning,sweating,biting lips and stuttering
  • Biting lips,groaning,fidgiting and sighing