Asked by Mohamed Hussien on Jul 26, 2024

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In Milgram's research on obedience,what was the teacher's perception of what would happen when the learner made a mistake

A)  The experiment would have to be terminated. 
B)  The learner would receive a shock. 
C)  The learner would be negatively reinforced. 
D)  The teacher would be asked to change places with the learner.

Obedience

The act of following orders or instructions from an authority figure, sometimes studied in the context of social psychology experiments.

Milgram's Research

A series of social psychology experiments in the 1960s that studied obedience to authority figures.

Learner Made Mistake

A situation where a person who is in the process of learning something does something incorrectly.

  • Comprehend the mental processes underlying submission to authoritative figures.
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Devashish ParmarJul 28, 2024
Final Answer :
B
Explanation :
In Milgram's research on obedience, the teacher believed that when the learner made a mistake, they would receive a shock. The teacher was instructed to administer increasingly strong shocks to the learner every time they made a mistake on a memory test, with the shocks purportedly causing increasing levels of pain and distress. Despite the learner's pleas for the experiment to stop and the increasing severity of the shocks, many teachers continued to administer them when instructed to do so by the researcher.