Exam 14: How Nice People Get Corrupted

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,

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

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.

examined soccer matches across five seasons in Germany's premier league.Results indicated that referees

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

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 _______.

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

In Milgram's research,when the experimenter gave the commands by telephone instead of in person,full obedience

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

The results of Asch's study is startling because the study did not employ any

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

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.

Describe what was done and what was found in Asch's (1955) study.

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.

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.

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 _______.

Asch's conformity experiments showed that most people

results of his replication of Milgram's work to the original study.

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