Participants in Milgram's obedience experiments were informed that they were involved in a study of
A) aggression.
B) altruism.
C) learning.
D) visual perception.

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Milgram's obedience experiments were designed to study learning, specifically the extent to which a person would obey an authority figure and administer shocks to another person in the context of a learning task. The other answer choices (aggression, altruism, and visual perception) are not directly related to the focus of Milgram's experiments.

Participants in Milgram's Obedience Experiments Were Informed That They Were