In Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority, He Started by Asking

question 166

Multiple Choice

In Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority, he started by asking one person to deliver a mild shock to another person and then gradually worked up to more intense shocks. This procedure resembles?

• A) Skinner's principle of shaping.
• B) Freud's principle of catharsis.
• C) the Gestalt principle of proximity.
• D) Jung's principle of the collective unconscious.

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