Exam 14: How Nice People Get Corrupted

Jerry Burger (2009)replicated Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments where Milgram's all-male sample was replaced with a group consisting of half men and half women.The results revealed that,when compared to Milgram's 1962 men,the percentage of men who obeyed the command to deliver electric shocks at 150 volts in Burger's study

When Milgram asked 100 psychiatrists,college students,and middle-class adults to predict the results of his experiment,the respondents said that they thought _____ would _____.

In a variation of Stanley Milgram's classic obedience experiments,when Milgram's experimenter gave the commands by telephone,full obedience

Milgram's studies explored _____; Asch's studies explored _____.

In follow-up experiments to his initial study,Milgram made the learner's protests more compelling by having him complain of a heart condition,then scream and plead for release,and finally refuse to answer.Even with this added condition,

The most famous and controversial experiments in social psychology were conducted by

During the 1970s,the military junta in power in Greece initially selected candidates for officers based on their submission to authority.The candidates were first asked to guard prisoners,then to observe torture,and then to eventually practice torture.This process demonstrates how _____ can breed _____.

The experimenter in Milgram's study used all of the following verbal prods to encourage participants to continue

When Milgram's experimental series was reenacted in Bridgeport,Connecticut,far from the prestige and authority of Yale University,the proportion of participants who fully complied with orders to shock the learner _____ compared to the rate at Yale.

A type of compliance involving acting in accord with a direct order or command is known as

A psychiatrist who interviewed 40 of Milgram's participants a year after their participation concluded that

In a study by Hofling and his colleagues (1966),22 hospital nurses were called by an unknown physician and ordered to administer an obvious drug overdose.Results showed that

While control participants were correct about line-length judgments more than 99 percent of the time in Asch's conformity study,his naive participants conformed to the incorrect judgments of others _____ percent of the time.

In light of the Milgram studies,which of the following is one of the factors that determined obedience?

Which of the following is term that defines a change in behavior or belief as a result of real or imagined group pressure.

In one variation of his original experiment,Milgram arranged for a second confederate (posing as a fellow participant)to assume command in the experimenter's absence.As a result of this manipulation,

In a variation of Milgram's study,teachers were required to force the learner's hand into contact with a shock plate.Under these conditions,_____ percent obeyed.

When participants in Milgram's experiments wanted to quit,they were given

As an example of the liberating effects of group influence,_____ percent of the participants in a variation of Milgram's study conformed to the confederate's behavior when the confederates defied the experimenter.

Unkelbach and Memmert (2010)examined soccer matches across five seasons in Germany's premier league.Results indicated that referees