The Milgram Study Demonstrated

question 19

Multiple Choice

The Milgram study demonstrated

• A)the specific personality traits that predict destructive obedience to authority.
• B)that people will typically harm another individual with little to no social pressure to do so.
• C)obedience to authority is most destructive when the authority figure is particularly harsh and demanding.
• D)the potential for situational influences to lead ordinary people to commit extraordinarily destructive acts.

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Definitions:

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