Exam 14: How Nice People Get Corrupted

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

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

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

When Milgram conducted his first series of experiments with a sample of 20- to 50-year-old men,he found that over 60 percent of them

In a variation of the Milgram study,the learner was in the same room as the teacher.Under these conditions,___% obeyed to 450 volts.

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 Yale rate.

Briefly summarize the studies by Asch and Milgram by listing the topic and method of each.Be sure to also provide a real life example of each study.

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

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 _______.

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

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.With this added condition,

found that expectant women expressed more _______ to their pregnancies after seeing an ultrasound photo of the fetus.

Describe three of the variations done on Milgram's original obedience experiment.Be sure to discuss how the results varied as a function of these changes.

In light of the Milgram studies,which of the following is NOT one of the factors that determined obedience?

,22 hospital nurses were telephoned by an unknown physician and ordered to administer an obvious drug overdose.Results showed that

_______ occurs when soldiers or employees follow questionable orders,such as when nurses willingly follow a physician's order to give a patient a dangerously high dosage of medication.

Discuss the ethics of Milgram's study. study.

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

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

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