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Which of the following types of conformity pressures induced most of the participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience studies to deliver escalating and life-threatening shocks to an innocent learner?
 
  a. informational influence
  b. normative influence
  c. mindless conformity
  d. both informational and normative social influence

Question 2

Recall that Milgram conducted a variation on his original obedience experiment. In this variation, there were two confederates in addition to the participant.
 
  When the participant threw the switch at 150 volts, one of the confederates refused to continue, even though the experimenter commanded him or her to do so. In this variation, only about 10 percent (compared to about 65 percent in the original study) went to the highest shock level. This experimental variation demonstrated the power of ________ in eliciting obedience.
  a. informational social influence
  b. descriptive norms
  c. normative social influence
  d. the door-in-the-face effect



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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