Summarize the Milgram study on obedience. What will be an ...

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Summarize the Milgram study on obedience.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In a free recall task, an individual is asked .
 
  a. to recall as much information as possible about a particular topic in any order
  b. to recall a series of items or numbers in a particular order
  c. to recall pairs of items that had been previously memorized
  d. to select the correct answer from a range of alternatives
  e. to reproduce information that has been previously committed to memory

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Answer to Question 1

Milgram was interested in whether average Americans would participate in unethical activity if they were so instructed to do so by an authority figure, in this case a university experimenter. He explained to the subjects that his actual research project was to study the effects of punishment on learning. The subjects were assigned to the role of teacher. Their job was to test someone on the ability to learn a list of words. When an incorrect answer was given, the teacher was to administer an electric shock to the learner. The amount of shock increased progressively throughout the
procedure, to the point where there were warnings on the shock delivery machine. The real trick was that no shocks were actually administered. What Milgram found was that subjects generally obeyed instructions to continue administering shocks, even when they were led to believe the learner was suffering.

Answer to Question 2

a