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1. Which of the following social-psychological principles is not illustrated by the conformity literature?
• the inoculation effect
3. When Milgramís experimental series was reenacted in Bridgeport, Connecticut, far from the prestige & authority of Yale University, the proportion of participants who fully complied with orders to shock the learner through reduced, remained remarkably high at __ percent.
4. In one variation on his original experiment, Milgram arranged for a confederate ďclerkĒ (posing as a fellow participant) to assume command in the experimenterís absence. As a result of this manipulation,
80 percent of the teachers refused to comply fully.
the teachers competed with him and with each other for the role of leader.
most teachers agreed to comply with the orders of their fellow group member.
participants became more positive about their roles in this cohesive group, and some even became enthusiastic.
5. In order for a person to be more willing to obey authoritative orders that conflict with his or her own personal standards,
6. When Milgram varied his experiment so that teachers had to physically force the learnerís hand onto a shock plate in order to administer punishment, compliance to the experimenterís orders dropped by 30%. This variation of the experiment was done to determine the influence of
the emotional distance of the victim.
the authority's the authority's closeness & legitimacy.
whether or not the authority was institutionalized.
the liberating effects of a disobedient fellow subject.
7. In a follow-up series of experiments after his initial study, Milgram made the learnerís protests more compelling by having him complain of a heart condition, then scream and plead for release, and finally refuse to answer. With this added condition,
only 35 percent of participants went to 450 volts.
learners became more real & personal to the teacher.
teachers were more reluctant to deliver initial shocks.
most participants still fully obeyed the experimenterís demands.
8. When Milgram asked people to predict the results of his experiment, the respondents said that they thought _____ would _____.
9. When Milgram conducted his first series of experiments with a sample of 20- to 50-year-old men, he found 65 percent of them
Robert C. Gates
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
- Sigmund Freud