In Milgram's Experiment on Obedience, Experts Predicted That Very Few

question 51

Multiple Choice

In Milgram's experiment on obedience, experts predicted that very few of the participants (the "teachers") would deliver the strongest shock, often because they ignored the situational variables and focused only on the dispositional factors of the people involved in the study. This tendency, a commonly-seen phenomenon in social psychology, is called the

• A) ultimate attribution error.
• B) fundamental attribution error.
• C) actor-observer bias.
• D) self-serving bias.
• E) implicit personality bias.

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