Question

Verbal prods such as “you must go on” encouraged experiment participants to deliver this stimulus to a person complaining of heart pains. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this stimulus that participants believed they were administering as punishment in the Milgram obedience experiment.
ANSWER: electric shocks [accept electrocution or word forms such as being electrocuted; prompt on electricity]
[10m] Dogs laid down and accepted shocks in a study by Martin Seligman that coined the two-word term for this condition, in which people faced with repeated aversive stimuli stop resisting due to lack of control.
ANSWER: learned helplessness
[10h] Periorbital shocks may be used to induce this reflex in a form of classical conditioning used to study motor learning. Jongkees and Colzato have linked the spontaneous rate of this reflex to dopamine activity.
ANSWER: eye blinking [accept spontaneous eye blink rate]
<Ganon Evans, Social Science - Psychology&gt; ~23365~ &lt;Editor: Vincent Du>

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