SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
GROUP BEHAVIOR
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Question
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refused to deliver even slight levels of shock
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initially complied but refused to deliver more than slight levels of shock
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complied until ordered to deliver intense levels of shock
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complied fully and delivered the highest level of shock
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refused to deliver shocks to all participants who expressed doubt about the experiment
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Detailed explanation-1: -Teachers averaged 83 volts, and only 2.5 percent of participants used the full 450 volts available. This shows most participants were good, average people, not evil individuals.
Detailed explanation-2: -65% (two-thirds) of participants (i.e. “teachers”) continued to the highest level of 450 volts. All of the participants continued to 300 volts. Milgram did more than one experiment-he carried out 18 variations of his study, all with similar findings.
Detailed explanation-3: -the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. In Milgram’s first study of obedience, the majority of teachers who were ordered to shock a learner : Question 11 options: refused to deliver even slight levels of shock.
Detailed explanation-4: -Milgram’s results showed that 65% of the participants in the study delivered the maximum shocks.4 Of the 40 participants in the study, 26 delivered the maximum shocks, while 14 stopped before reaching the highest levels.
Detailed explanation-5: -The subjects believed that for each wrong answer the learner was receiving actual shocks. In reality, there were no shocks.