Question

Recall that Milgram conducted a variation on his original obedience experiment. In this variation, there were two confederates in addition to the participant. When the participant threw the switch at 150 volts, one of the confederates refused to continue, even though the experimenter commanded him or her to do so. In this variation, only about 10 percent (compared to about 65 percent in the original study) went to the highest shock level. This experimental variation demonstrated the power of __________ in eliciting obedience.informational social influencedescriptive normsnormative social influencethe door-in-the-face effect

Answer 1

Answer:

Normative social influence

Explanation:

The Milgram Experiment was an experiment on the obedience to authority figures. It comprises of a lot of social psychology experiments. The scientisy was a Yale University Psychologist called Stanley Milgram. The goal of the experiment was to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who give instructions to them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

Milgram shared what two theories which are;

1. Theory of conformism

2. Agentic state theory

Normative social influence os simply defined as the act of conforming because we want to be liked and want to fit into a group. Its examples includes Friendship group type things, smoking/drug taking, types of music and dress sense etc.