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Milgram Revisited Social Psychology Obedience & Conformity Make a prediction about the recreated experiment before viewing. Do you think people would behave any differently today? Are there certain “personality types” that will be more or less likely to follow through with the experiment than others? 1. How did Milgram originally create conflict in the mind (for “Teachers”) between the health of the “Learner” and the authority of the experimenter? There is a conflict between personal obedience and authority. 2. What did most “Teachers” do the first time they heard the “Learner” scream out in pain? When begged to stop? they look back at the person in charge, with a look of ‘what do i do?” or they verbalize that. 3. “Why are you putting it on him and not the experimenter?” What was the man’s response? How is this dangerous? 4. What significant change did this version of Milgram’s experiment include? 5. Do you think women will react differently? Why/why not? What happened in the experiment? I thought that women would be less confident in disagreeing with doing the experiment, especially since the person in charge was male. That is what happened, although they knew it was wrong. 6. ______% of women, and ______% of men continued to the highest shock. 7. What social psych key term(s) are associated with the participant’s belief that it was not their responsibility? Explain. 8. How did Philip Zimbardo explain the McDonalds case? 9. What’s your takeaway with all of this? How can you apply this to “real life”? Think about the past (examples from history) or the present (your own life or current events in general)....