AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative–even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Milgram experiment is a famous psychological study exploring the willingness of individuals to follow the orders of authorities when those orders conflict with the individual’s own moral judgment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The study violated their main ethical principles: deception, right to withdrawal, and protection of participants involved. Violation of these ethical principles forms the basis of how the study of conducted today. The Milgram experiment has provided insight into people’s behavior to words authority.

Detailed explanation-4: -Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a “learner". These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.