The milgram experiment required the participation of a(n) to play the part of the person being shocked because the experiment would be invalidated if the participant realized the electric shock treatment was faked. question 1 options: a. ally b. associate c. confederate d. union save

C - confederate. In an experiment, a confederate is a person who pretends to be a participant but in reality is acting in conjunction with the researcher. Sometimes this is necessary for the experiment. In the Milgram experiment, to actually render electric shocks to other participants would have certainly been unethical, but it was necessary to the experiment that the participants believe that they were rendering electric shocks. Thus, the use of a confederate allowed this to occur.