It Is Likely That Participants in Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments

question 170

Multiple Choice

It is likely that participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments (conducted in the 1960s and 1970s) were willing to administer increasingly severe shocks to a confederate learner because when confronted with a confusing, unfamiliar, and upsetting situation, they would turn to the experimenter for cues as to how to proceed. This speculation in essence identifies __________ as a source of participants' destructive obedience.

• A) social norms
• B) normative social influence
• C) informational social influence
• D) latent sadism

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