Exam 14: How Nice People Get Corrupted

_______ 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.

If we were to conclude that Milgram's obedient participants were particularly hostile and aggressive people,we would be

Discuss the ethics of Milgram's study.

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

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 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,

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.

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.

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