Obedience

What is social psychology?

Answer – Social psychology aims to understand aspects of human behavior and how our behavior is influenced by the presence of others.

What did Milgram say about obedience?

Answer – Milgram said obedience is necessary for the smooth running of society.

What is social influence?

Answer – Social influence is when an individual’s behavior is influenced by real or imagined pressure from others.

What is obedience?

Answer – Obedience is yielding to the demands of an authority figure.

What is dissent?

Answer – Dissent is rejecting the demands of an authority figure.

Who conducted the famous obedience study?

Answer– Stanley Milgram (1933–1984).

What are some key facts about Stanley Milgram?

Answer –

• Born in New York to Jewish parents.

• His family was affected by the Holocaust.

• Earned a PhD in social psychology from Harvard.

• Known for his controversial experiment on obedience.

What historical event influenced Milgram’s study?

Answer – The Holocaust—during WWII, the Nazi Party ordered the mass extermination of millions of Jewish people.

What is the “Germans are different” hypothesis?

Answer- After WWII, many believed Nazi soldiers had a flaw that made them more obedient to orders from authority figures.

What was Milgram’s aim in his obedience experiment?

Answer – To investigate whether ordinary people would follow orders and give an innocent person a potentially harmful electric shock.