What Did We Learn About Students' Willingness to Obey Authority

question 79

Multiple Choice

What did we learn about students' willingness to obey authority in the Stanley Milgram study?

• A) People will follow an authority figure's orders regardless of the pain they might be inflicting on others.
• B) People will organize and establish their own rules, eliminating the expert.
• C) People will establish relationships among themselves, creating an in-group and an out-group.
• D) No one will obey orders that have negative consequences for other people.
• E) All of the above.

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Definitions:

Cooking Food

The process of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients, which can increase digestibility and reduce foodborne pathogens.

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Foraging

The act of searching for and exploiting food resources by animals, including humans.

Dunbar

Refers to the Dunbar's number, a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.