Milgram experiment - Quiz
Milgram experiment
  • 1. How many variations of the experiment did Milgram describe in his 1974 book?
A) 10
B) 25
C) 15
D) 19
  • 2. What happened to compliance when the participant was physically closer to the learner?
A) It increased
B) It stayed the same
C) It decreased
D) It became unpredictable
  • 3. What was the completion rate when the participant had to hold the learner's arm onto a shock plate?
A) 47.5 percent
B) 21 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 30 percent
  • 4. In Experiment 2, where the experimenter gave instructions by phone, what was the compliance rate?
A) 47.5 percent
B) 21 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 15 percent
  • 5. How did some participants respond to telephonic instructions in Experiment 2?
A) They stopped the experiment immediately
B) They reported the experiment to the police
C) They asked for higher payment
D) They deceived the experimenter
  • 6. In the all-female contingent variation, how did obedience compare to the all-male groups?
A) It was nonexistent
B) It did not significantly differ
C) It was significantly lower
D) It was significantly higher
  • 7. What did the women report experiencing more of compared to men in the Milgram experiments?
A) Less confusion
B) More boredom
C) Greater physical comfort
D) Higher levels of stress
  • 8. Where did Experiment 10 take place to test the effect of prestige?
A) Bridgeport, Connecticut
B) New Haven, Connecticut
C) New York City
D) Yale University
  • 9. What was the name of the commercial entity used in Experiment 10?
A) Connecticut Psychological Lab
B) Research Associates of Bridgeport
C) Bridgeport Science Associates
D) Yale Research Group
  • 10. What was the obedience rate when the experiment was moved away from Yale University?
A) 21 percent
B) 47.5 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 15 percent
  • 11. In Experiment 17, what happened when two additional teachers refused to comply?
A) 37 of 40 participants continued
B) Only four of 40 participants continued
C) Half of the participants continued
D) All 40 participants continued
  • 12. In Experiment 18, how many participants continued when a peer complied fully?
A) 4 of 40
B) 10 of 40
C) 20 of 40
D) 37 of 40
  • 13. What term does Milgram use for the state where participants consider themselves instruments of the experimenter?
A) Authoritative state
B) Autonomous state
C) Passive state
D) Agentic state
  • 14. Which of these was a sign of tension observed in participants during the experiments?
A) Nervous laughter
B) Aggression toward the learner
C) Falling asleep
D) Refusal to take payment
  • 15. What is the Relationship Condition (RC) experiment known for?
A) The experimenter was also a participant
B) Participants were paid more
C) Participants chose their own shock levels
D) Participants brought a friend
  • 16. What was the completion rate in the Relationship Condition?
A) 15 percent
B) 30 percent
C) 47.5 percent
D) 21 percent
  • 17. What percentage of teachers in the Relationship Condition disobeyed before the 195-volt switch?
A) 50 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 80 percent
  • 18. According to the text, what does the tension observed in participants highlight?
A) The lack of intelligence in participants
B) The influence of financial rewards
C) Conflict between compliance and ethical standards
D) The desire to be famous
  • 19. Who conducted the famous series of social psychology experiments in the early 1960s?
A) The Yale Department of Psychology
B) Stanley Milgram
C) Adolf Eichmann
D) A Nazi war criminal
  • 20. What percentage of participants in the Milgram experiment went up to the full 450 volts?
A) 50%
B) 100%
C) 30%
D) 65%
  • 21. When did the Milgram experiments begin at Yale University?
A) 1963
B) 1959
C) August 1961
D) 1974
  • 22. Which role did the confederate play in the experiment?
A) The observer
B) The learner
C) The teacher
D) The experimenter
  • 23. What happened to the 'learner' at 300 and 315 volts?
A) He was heard banging on the wall
B) He admitted the shocks were fake
C) He begged to be released
D) He fell silent immediately
  • 24. Why did the experimenter wear a lab coat?
A) For sanitary reasons
B) To appear to have more authority
C) To hide his identity
D) Because it was a requirement of the university
  • 25. What was the maximum voltage level used in the experiment?
A) 300 volts
B) 1000 volts
C) 450 volts
D) 150 volts
  • 26. What was the final outcome for every participant in the study?
A) Every participant refused to go past 15 volts
B) Every participant stopped at 315 volts
C) Every participant obeyed until the learner died
D) Every participant went up to at least 300 volts
  • 27. Which book did Milgram use to discuss his findings in depth?
A) The Holocaust and Obedience
B) The Psychology of Genocide
C) The Yale Experiments
D) Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
  • 28. What did the experimenter say if the teacher asked if the learner might suffer permanent harm?
A) The university takes full responsibility
B) There is no permanent tissue damage
C) The learner has signed a waiver
D) The shocks are only simulated
  • 29. What was the first verbal prod used by the experimenter?
A) You have no other choice
B) You must continue
C) The experiment requires that you continue
D) Please continue or Please go on
  • 30. How many Yale psychology students did Milgram poll to predict teacher behavior?
A) 5
B) 40
C) 14
D) 100
  • 31. What was the average number of teachers Yale students predicted would inflict maximum voltage?
A) 3.73
B) 10
C) 0.1
D) 1.2
  • 32. Who suggested that poor people are more likely to cooperate?
A) Thomas Blass
B) Chaim Homnick
C) Stanley Milgram
D) The experimenter
  • 33. Who performed a meta-analysis on the results of repeated performances of the experiment?
A) Stanley Milgram
B) Thomas Blass
C) Chaim Homnick
D) The Harvard psychiatrists
  • 34. What was the average percentage of obedience for US studies according to the meta-analysis?
A) 47%
B) 61%
C) 66%
D) 40%
  • 35. Who wrote the influential 1964 article criticizing the ethics of Milgram's experiment?
A) Thomas Blass
B) James Waller
C) Diana Baumrind
D) Gina Perry
  • 36. What percentage of former participants reported being 'glad' or 'very glad' to have participated in the experiment?
A) 84%
B) 15%
C) 50%
D) 92%
  • 37. Who argued that participants were not properly debriefed and suffered lasting emotional harm?
A) Gina Perry
B) Thomas Blass
C) Diana Baumrind
D) James Waller
  • 38. According to Thomas Blass, Milgram's explanation is most effective at describing which type of Holocaust perpetrator?
A) The zealous, inventive perpetrator
B) The dispassionate bureaucrat
C) The high-ranking Nazi leader
D) The hate-driven executioner
  • 39. Who was the participant in the 1961 experiment who expressed suspicion about the study's intent?
A) Clifford Stott
B) Gina Perry
C) Joseph Dimow
D) Robert J. Shiller
  • 40. How many of the people who believed the experiment was real disobeyed the experimenter, according to Gina Perry?
A) 66%
B) 50%
C) 12%
D) 33%
  • 41. What concept suggests that people fail to identify a malevolent authority even when presented with evidence?
A) Engaged followership
B) Conformism
C) Belief perseverance
D) Agentic state
  • 42. The theory of conformism is based on which psychologist's previous experiments?
A) Clifford Stott
B) Solomon Asch
C) Robert J. Shiller
D) Alexander Haslam
  • 43. Where was the version of the experiment conducted around the time of the release of Obedience to Authority?
A) Cambridge University
B) Oxford University
C) La Trobe University
D) Harvard University
  • 44. Where was the video of Rod Dickinson's performance first shown in 2002?
A) CCA Gallery
B) London Art Institute
C) National Museum
D) British Library
  • 45. Who staged a partial replication of the experiment in the 2006 broadcast 'The Heist'?
A) Jerry M. Burger
B) Derren Brown
C) Rod Dickinson
D) Eli Roth
  • 46. In what year did Jerry M. Burger conduct his partial replication of the experiment?
A) 2006
B) 2002
C) 2011
D) 2010
  • 47. How did the obedience rates found by Burger in 2009 compare to Milgram's original findings?
A) Significantly higher
B) Significantly lower
C) Completely unrelated
D) Virtually identical
  • 48. What was a significant demographic change in Burger's 2009 replication?
A) All were teenagers
B) All were military personnel
C) Half were elderly
D) Half were female
  • 49. In the French documentary 'Le Jeu de la Mort', how was the experiment framed?
A) A medical training exercise
B) A military drill
C) A psychological test
D) A game show pilot
  • 50. How many contestants in the French documentary chose to end the game early?
A) 16
B) 80
C) 64
D) 40
  • 51. Which animal did Charles Sheridan and Richard King use in their variation of the Milgram experiment?
A) A rhesus monkey
B) A laboratory rat
C) A cute, fluffy puppy
D) A domestic cat
  • 52. What was Don Mixon's hypothesis regarding the initial Milgram results?
A) The subjects were not actually distressed
B) Subjects were afraid of the laboratory setting
C) The experimenter was too intimidating
D) Vagueness played a key role
  • 53. Which company distributes the black-and-white film 'Obedience'?
A) Bethesda Softworks
B) Sundance Film Festival
C) CBS Television
D) Alexander Street Press
  • 54. Which actor appeared in the 1975 CBS drama 'The Tenth Level'?
A) Derren Brown
B) William Shatner
C) Chip Kidd
D) Peter Gabriel
  • 55. Which film features a 15-minute scene replicating the experiment?
A) Atrocity
B) Experimenter
C) I as in Icarus
D) Batch '81
  • 56. Which artist released the song 'We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)'?
A) Deco*27
B) Dar Williams
C) Ossie Davis
D) Peter Gabriel
  • 57. In which video game can players hear verbal prods inside a death chamber in Vault 11?
A) Atrocity
B) Bones
C) The Learners
D) Fallout: New Vegas
  • 58. Who directed the 2015 film 'Experimenter'?
A) Michael Almereyda
B) Chip Kidd
C) Henri Verneuil
D) Derren Brown
  • 59. Which crime procedural TV show centered an entire episode around a modern recreation of the experiment?
A) Ted
B) The Tenth Level
C) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
D) Bones
  • 60. What is the title of the song about the experiment on Dar Williams' 2008 album?
A) The Learners
B) So
C) Authority
D) Buzzer
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