Which One of the Following Statements Does NOT Provide an Accurate

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Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements does NOT provide an accurate description of Stanley Milgram's experiments?

• A)Milgram designed a series of experiments to determine the extent to which people obey the commands of an authority figure,even if they believe they are endangering the life of another person.
• B)Experimental subjects were falsely told that the purpose of the experiment was to determine the effects of punishment on the learning of word pairs.
• C)Experimental subjects were instructed to give what they believed were successively higher levels of electric shocks to people who missed the word pairs.
• D)The experimental results revealed that 35 percent of the subjects subjected the "learner" to the maximum level of shock and the remaining 65 percent refused to obey the experimenter at various intermediate points.
• E)The basic conclusion of Milgram's studies is there is a tendency for individuals to comply with and be obedient to authority.

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