AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychologist Stanley Milgram began the obedience study at Yale in 1961, shortly after the start of the trial of Nazi war criminal Albert Eichmann. Milgram’s research was documented as “Behavioral Study on obedience” in 1963 in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Milgram’s Studies on Obedience to Authority. The powerful ability of those in authority to control others was demonstrated in a remarkable set of studies performed by Stanley Milgram (1963). Milgram was interested in understanding the factors that lead people to obey the orders given by people in authority.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -It is more accurate to describe the Milgram experiments as a series of studies that used a controlled observation method since the studies observed the reaction and response of their participants to standardized and controlled instructions.

Detailed explanation-5: -Solomon Asch conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. He believed that the main problem with Sherif’s (1935) conformity experiment was that there was no correct answer to the ambiguous autokinetic experiment.