Test on social influence so far, and introduction to research into obedience

Here are the instructions for today's lesson, including test questions and yesterday's exam practice question.

Today, in my absence, you are starting to look at Milgram's classic experiment examining obedience to an unjust authority (that is, an authority figure who tells a participant to inflict pain and possibly death on a random person they've just met).

The results, well replicated in a range of settings but still doubted by some, continue to shock. It seems that more than half of us would administer what we believe to be fatal electric shocks to a stranger if we were told that an experiment 'required it'.

Here is the presentation.

This short video has some footage of the actual experiment which gives a flavour of the real thing:

Here is the specification sheet / revision checklist for the whole of Social Influence.