If You Wanted to Increase the Level of Obedience in a Standard

question 25

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to increase the level of obedience in a standard Milgram experiment,which of the following would you do?

• A) have a second participant with the teacher who actually flips the shock switch
• B) make sure that the learner is in the same room as the teacher
• C) have the experimenter give the orders by phone
• D) have the experimenter appear to be an ordinary person
• E) have the teacher force the learner's hand onto a shock plate

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