In Milgram's (1963) study of obedience, subjects

a. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to a stranger

b. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice

c. indicated which of three lines matched a "standard line" in length

d. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simple questions

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Virginia Norris

Social Studies

14 July, 09:45

In Milgram's (1963) study of obedience, subjects

a. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to a stranger

b. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice

c. indicated which of three lines matched a "standard line" in length

d. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simple questions

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Deven Martin · Answer 1

In Milgram's (1963) study of obedience, subjects were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to a stranger.

Option A

Explanation:

Stanley Milgram, a psychology professor at Yale University conducted a series of psychology experiments on compliance to authority. In the year 1963, he made a study on the explanation for acts of genocide presented by those accused at World War II in the Nuremberg War Criminal trials.

The study was to get an understanding of whether the Nazi army soldiers are basically different from normal people. Finally, Milgram concluded that from his well-known study that individuals would go against what they thought was morally right so that they could obey authority.