Gap-fill on Stanley Milgram's shock study

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Each participant (pp) was tested on their own. They were introduced to another "pp" who was actually a [c__]. The pps drew straws to determine their roles as either learner or teacher, but the draw was fixed so the real pp was always the [___]. There was also an experimenter in the room, who was really an actor in a gray lab coat.

confederate

teacher

The learner was strapped to a chair with [e__] attached to him. After he learned a list of word pairs, the teacher tested him by naming a word and asking for the pair from [_] options. The teacher was told to give a [s__] for every mistake, increasing the level each time. There were [__] switches, and the level ranged from [__] to [___] volts. The confederates mainly gave wrong answers.

electrodes

shock

450

If the teacher refused to give a shock, the experimenter gave prods. 1."Please continue" 2."The experiment [r__] you to continue" 3."It is absolutely [e__] that you continue" 4."You have no other [c__] but to continue."

requires

essential

choice

[__]% of pps continued to the highest level of [___] volts. All of the pps continued to [___] volts. This shows that under the right circumstances, ordinary people will obey unjust orders

450

300

Milgram made variations to the variables in this study, such as the [p__]. In the original study, the teacher and learner were in adjoining rooms so they couldn't see each other. When they were in the same room, obedience dropped to [__]%, and then to [__]% when the teacher had to force the learners' hand onto the shock plate. It then fell to [___]% when the experimenter gave instructions over the phone and pps often gave lower shocks than they said they did.

proximity

20.5

Another variation was to the [l__] of the study, which was originally done at Yale University. Obedience dropped to [___]% when the study was set in a run down building. This suggests pps were questioning the [l__] of [a__]

location

47.5

legitimacy

authority

The final variation was to the [u__] of the experimenter. In the original study, the experimenter wore a lab coat. Obedience fell to [__]% when the experimenter left to take an "important phone call" and left an ordinary member of the public wearing normal clothes.

uniform