Question

In 1963, Stanley Milgram reported that 65% of research participants, at the request of the experimenter, would administer phony shocks that they considered real, to a stranger. He demonstrated how obedient humans can be to authority figures. Some critics contend that Milgram's findings cannot be used to predict behavior in real life. How might Milgram respond to this criticism?a. Laboratory research is like "real life" so results can be used to predict such behavior

b. It's impossible to study obedience in the "real world" so laboratory research is the only option.
c. Laboratory research allows you to identify general principles that do generalize to other 'real world' contexts.
d. All valuable psychological research is conducted in the lab.
e. The situation was not artificial, but justifiable in demonstrating the impact of the situation on human behavior.

Answer 1

e. The situation was not artificial, but justifiable in demonstrating the impact of the situation on human behavior.

Step-by-step explanation:

In all social experiment, the experimenter tries as much as possible to bring the experiment carried out closer to real event. stanley Milgram knows that it is dangerous to administer real shocks to individual participants hence using the phony shocks.

Irrespective of the fact that phony shocks was used, the result was justifiable and closer to the impact of the situation on human behaviour when compared to using real shocks. For the fact that the participants are unawre that the shock is fake, helps led credence to the authenticity of the research.