Study guide for “Obedience” video
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As explained in the introductory narration of the “Obedience” video, the educational
level of the subjects who participated in Milgram’s “Obedience” experiment ranged from
persons who had
not finished elementary school
to persons who had advanced graduate
and professional degrees.
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As explained in the concluding narration in the “Obedience” video, Milgram completed
several variations of his experiment in order to test the degree to which specific types of
situational factors affected a subject’s performance.
These factors included (1) the
proximity of
the experimenter to the subject and the degree to which he supervised the
subject, (2) the institutional context in which the experiment took place, (3) the behavior
of other group members, where the subject was a member of a ‘Teacher’ group and (4)
__________.
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The results of the “Obedience” experiment were “disturbing” to Milgram because they


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