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lracut11 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Milgram surveyed both a panel of Yale undergraduates and a panel of psychology professors before he conducted his original experiment. In these surveys, he found that

a. most people predicted that less than 1 percent of participants would go to 450 volts.
b. most people predicted that less than 10 percent of the participants would go to 450 volts.
c. most people predicted that a majority of participants would go to 450 volts.
d. students underestimated the percentage who would go all the way to 450 volts, while professors' estimates were fairly accurate.

Question 2

In a famous social psychological experiment, participants were led to believe they were to deliver electric shocks of increasing potency to a learner for a memorization task.

Participants were encouraged to continue even though the learner was clearly in pain, and most participants, in fact, did continue shocking the learner. What famous study is this describing?
a. Asch line studies
b. Milgram's studies of obedience
c. Shultz' study of injunctive norms
d. Moscovici's studies of minority influence