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