AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Milgram experiment(s) on obedience to authority figures were a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.

Detailed explanation-2: -Key Takeaways: The Milgram Experiment The goal of the Milgram experiment was to test the extent of humans’ willingness to obey orders from an authority figure. Participants were told by an experimenter to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to another individual.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram in 1963. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.

Detailed explanation-4: -Results of the Milgram Experiment In the Milgram experiment, obedience was measured by the level of shock that the participant was willing to deliver. While many of the subjects became extremely agitated, distraught, and angry at the experimenter, they nevertheless continued to follow orders all the way to the end.

Detailed explanation-5: -Milgram was horrified by the results of the experiment. In the “remote condition” version of the experiment described above, 65 percent of the subjects (26 out of 40) continued to inflict shocks right up to the 450-volt level, despite the learner’s screams, protests, and, at the 330-volt level, disturbing silence.