Question

In Stanley Milgram’s classic studies of obedience,teachers in a staged experiment were instructed to administer shocks to learners when they made mistakes. A large percentage of the teachers obeyed the experimenter and administered strong levels of shock to the learners. When this experiment is described, most people judge the obedient participants to be aggressive, cold,and unappealing, and they fail to recognize the role of social forces in behavior. The mistaken judgment is due to

Answer 1

Answer:

The fundamental attribution error

Explanation:

The fundamental attribution error otherwise known as attribution effect or correspondence bias, is a socio psychological term coined by Lee Ross, a social psychologist, that describes the tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics such as personality traits or disposition and underempahsize external factors, such as situational factors in determining people's behavior.

Hence, in this case, most people or teacher, judge the obedient participants based upon their personal characteristics, such as aggressiveness when they made mistakes, without considering the external factor such as social forces, when judging the participants, of which the mistaken judgement is considered to be as a result of "Fundamental attribution Error"