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Question 1

in the milgram experiment, when was disobedience by the participants most likely?

Answer 1

at 150V, when fake participants first requested to be released

Question 2

why do we believe that participants just started stopping at 150V?

Answer 2

bc the previous voltages differed fairly little from each other
it was only when the learner spoke up that participants consciously realized that they were causing someone pain

Question 3

when were people less compliant?

Answer 3

when participants were required to shock the learners themselves

Question 4

what is the core of the obedience paradigm?

Answer 4

the conflict between the instructions and the learners’ experience

Question 5

what is one factor that may have contribted to the tendency to defer to the authority figure?

Answer 5

the ambiguity in the experimental context

Question 6

what happened when participants did follow orders at 150V?

Answer 6

they were less likely to stop later
–> likely due to cognitive dissonance or foot-in-the-door phenomena, as well as desensitization

Question 7

what can we conclude about disobedience?

Answer 7

it is systematic