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Question 45

Following the conclusion of his obedience research, how did Milgram systematically evaluate the potential long-term psychological harm caused to his participants by the intense stress and deception of the procedure?

A

By requiring participants to keep a structured weekly stress diary for six months, which was monitored by the Yale University Health Services.

B

By conducting a follow-up survey of all participants and having an independent psychiatrist interview a sample to assess long-term psychological effects.

C

By administering a standardized personality inventory immediately before and six months after the experiment to measure changes in neuroticism.

D

By providing automatic, university-funded clinical counselling sessions for any participant who scored above a threshold on a post-experimental anxiety scale.

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Responses to people in authority Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Responses to people in authority

128 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Responses to people in authority, covering Milgram (1963): Obedience and Bocchiaro et al. (2012): Disobedience and whistle-blowing. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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