Students Are Often Surprised to Learn About the Results of the Milgram

question 31

Multiple Choice

Students are often surprised to learn about the results of the Milgram study,in which the majority of participants were willing to administer potentially life threatening electric shocks to someone because the experimenter urged them on.When thinking about these results,students often assume that only a bad person would do such a thing,despite the fact that MOST of the study participants were willing to administer the shocks.Such consensus seems to suggest that it was the powerful situation that brought about the participants' behavior.In this way,students' attributions for the participants' behavior in the Milgram study seem to be more consistent with the ________ than the ________.

• A) actor-observer difference; fundamental attribution error
• B) fundamental attribution error; actor-observer difference
• C) covariation principle; fundamental attribution error
• D) fundamental attribution error; covariation principle

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Effective Annual Return

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Nominal Interest

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Amortized

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