The Stanley Milgram Electric Shock Experiment Assignment

1)The Stanley Milgram electric shock experiment was designed to test the extent to
which individuals conform to peer group pressure.
Select one:
True
False
2) Which of the following psychological mechanisms from Milgram or Zimbardo’s
experiment explains how an individual experiences a loss of personal responsibility
for their behaviour in situations where he/she feels anonymous (e.g. when one is in a
crowd setting)?
Select one:
a. counter-anthropomorphism
b. dehumanization
c. binding factors
d. agentic shift
e. deindividuation
3)Rawls believes that to negotiate a fair system of governance we must all negotiate
from an original position of equality.
To get into this original position we must first imagine we are behind the veil of
Ignorance ..............
4)According to Rawls, the ‘Difference Principle’ means that any economic
inequalities are fully justified because they have emerged organically from voluntary
exchanges on the free market.
Select one:
True
False
5)Why do libertarians fundamentally disagree with taxing the rich to redistribute to
the poor?
Select one:
a. because it is economically unproductive
b. because it is pointless as the rich find ways of avoiding paying tax anyway
c. because it is a form of coercion and violates the idea of self-ownership