Question 1

At which University did Milgram work?

Accepted Answer

Yale

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Stanford

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Boston

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Harvard

Question 2

How did Milgram recruit his participants?

Accepted Answer

He asked for volunteers through a local newspaper advert.

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He asked for volunteers at a Psychology conference.

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He used students at the University.

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He did a random sample of every household in the area.

Question 3

What was Milgram's sample?

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40 males aged from 20 to 50 from a wide range of professions and educational backgrounds.

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40 males and females aged from 20 to 50 from a wide range of professions and educational backgrounds.

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40 males aged from 18 to 70 who were all engineers.

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40 males who were screened to ensure they had at least finished high school.

Question 4

Which Nazi's war crimes trial had started just three months before the study began?

Accepted Answer

Eichmann

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Mengele

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Hess

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Goering

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT an aim of the study to investigate?

Accepted Answer

Whether Americans would exhibit moral strain when ordered to hurt someone.

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Whether Americans would obey orders to do harm like the Nazis had done.

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Whether participants would follow an order to hurt an innocent victim.

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Whether the Nazis could say they were just following orders.

Question 6

How much were the participants paid  and what for?

Accepted Answer

$4.50 for turning up at the laboratory.

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$4.50 for completing the experiment.

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$3.50 for turning up at the laboratory.

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$3.50 for completing a questionnaire.

Question 7

Milgram wrote that "Obedience is ubiquitous and indispensable..."  What does ubiquitous mean?

Accepted Answer

universal

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easily done

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powerful

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essential

Question 8

The participants were told what about the aim of the study?

Accepted Answer

It was to investigate the effect of punishment on learning.

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It was to investigate the effect of punishment on the teacher.

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It was to investigate whether Americans would follow orders to hurt an innocent man.

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It was to investigate whether Americans would be destructively obedient.

Question 9

Who played the part of the victim in the role play?

Accepted Answer

An accomplice.

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Another participant.

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Milgram himself.

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The participant.

Question 10

How did Milgram ensure that the participant played the role of the teacher?

Accepted Answer

It was a rigged draw as both slips had "teacher" on them.

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He left it to chance and only some of the participants played the teacher role.

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He told them that they would take the role of teacher.

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They always chose the role as they didn't want to get hurt.

Question 11

The shock generator went up in increments...but how large were the steps?

Accepted Answer

15 volts

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45 volts

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20 volts

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50 volts

Question 12

The participants were given a test shock of how many volts?

Accepted Answer

45

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150

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75

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15

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a prompt given by the experimenter?

Accepted Answer

You will get paid double if you continue to the end of the experiment.

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The experiment requires that you continue.

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You have no other choice, you must go on.

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Please continue.

Question 14

If the participant asked if the learner was being harmed, what was he told?

Accepted Answer

That there was no permanent tissue damage.

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That the experimenter would check.

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That the shocks were not even painful.

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That the learner had agreed so it was OK to continue.

Question 15

What did Milgram plan to do with the participants immediately after the experiment?

Accepted Answer

An interview, a reconciliation and de-hoax.

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Nothing.  The debrief was planned for a month after the experiment.

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A counselling session.

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A questionnaire and a reconciliation.

Question 16

When Milgram asked senior Psychology students at the University to predict how many ppts would go to the end of the shock series, what was the maximum prediction?

Accepted Answer

3%

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1%

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10%

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0.1%

Question 17

What were the quantitative results of the experiment?

Accepted Answer

100% went to 300V and 65% to 450V.

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100% went to 300V and 35% went to 450V.

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65% went to 300V and 26% to 450V.

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100% went to 150V and 65% to 450V.

Question 18

What happened at 300V which coincided with some participants defying the orders to continue?

Accepted Answer

The learner kicked the wall and stopped answering.

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The learner had a "full-blown uncontrollable seizure."

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The learner screamed really loudly and banged on the wall.

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The learner complained that his "heart was bothering him."

Question 19

What were the qualitative results of the experiment?

Accepted Answer

That participants reacted with tension and emotional strain.

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That everyone went to 300V and

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That the participants who went to 450V stayed calm and composed throughout.

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That all the participants became "twitching, stuttering wrecks".

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT a sign of nervous tension?

Accepted Answer

Dancing around the room.

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Digging their fingernails into their flesh.

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Laughing fits.

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Biting their lips.

Question 21

Milgram said there were two surprising findings from his experiment.  What were they?

Accepted Answer

The sheer strength of obedient tendencies and the extraordinary tension generated.

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The level of disobedience and the  extraordinary tension generated.

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The sheer strength of obedient tendencies and the fact that three participants had seizures.

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The sheer strength of obedient tendencies and the fact that some participants remained calm throughout.

Question 22

Milgram suggested that the conflict stems from being torn between which two dispositions?

Accepted Answer

1) not to harm others and 2) to obey legitimate authority figures.

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1)  to obey legitimate authority figures and 2) to finish the experiment quickly.

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1) not to harm others and 2) wanting to get paid.

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1) not to harm others and 2) to please the researcher.

Question 23

Milgram wrote that further study might be fruitful - true or false?

Accepted Answer

True

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True, as long as it was more ethical in future.

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False

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