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81. When a recent study repeated Milgram’s experiment, which personality characteristic : 1201854
81. When a recent study repeated Milgram’s experiment, which personality characteristic was found to be associated with low levels of obedience?
A. Authoritarianism
B. Low self-esteem
C. Conscientiousness
D. Empathy
82. In a psychology experiment, you are instructed to shock your teaching assistant, who is strapped to a chair in the next room. Assuming that you disobeyed such a cold and heartless order, which of the following factors would most likely influence your refusal?
A. The experimenter who asked you to comply was someone you respected.
B. You have an external locus of control.
C. You have an authoritarian personality.
D. You witnessed another participant refuse to shock the teaching assistant.
83. Which of the following conclusions was derived from Milgram’s studies of obedience?
A. Ordinary people are capable of brutal acts toward other people, given the right conditions.
B. When told that they must perform an action, most people will react in the opposite manner.
C. When individuals lose their sense of identity in a group, they will often perform antisocial acts.
D. People have an instinctive desire to harm others.
84. What is the most serious ethical objection to Milgram’s studies on obedience?
A. Participants in experiments should not have to obey orders.
B. Experimental procedures should not cause emotional harm to participants.
C. Participants’ actions were influenced by the fact that they were participating in an experiment.
D. The learner who was supposedly receiving electric shocks was actually not.
85. The results of Milgram’s obedience studies and of studies of the inhumane acts of Nazi and American soldiers indicate that
A. most normal people would not have acted this way under similar conditions.
B. most people assume full responsibility for their actions.
C. this type of obedience no longer occurs today; it is clearly a thing of the past.
D. most people do what authorities tell them to do, even when they have doubts.
86. Which of the following situations does not describe aggressive behavior?
A. A boxer punches his opponent in the face.
B. A boy plays a practical joke on a little girl so that she will cry.
C. A parent disciplines a child by spanking him.
D. A volleyball player spikes the ball, which then strikes an opponent.
87. Jeffrey is a serial killer, and brain scans have revealed that there is damage that makes it less likely that he will inhibit his aggressive tendencies. He most likely has damage to his
A. suprachiasmatic nuclei.
B. limbic system.
C. medulla.
D. corpus callosum.
88. Darlene is watching the movie Fight Club as a part of her social psychology project. In her written analysis, she explains some reasons why people are aggressive. Darlene could mention all of the following as influencing aggression except
A. impulsivity (temperament).
B. the hippocampus.
C. prenatal exposure to testosterone.
D. observing aggression on television.
89. You notice that your male friends are more aggressive than your female ones. According to the biological theories of aggression, the reason could be that men
A. have higher levels of serotonin than women do.
B. have lower levels of testosterone than women do.
C. have lower levels of serotonin than women do.
D. have higher levels of testosterone than women do.
90. After dealing with difficult customers all day at work, Patrick finally returns home to his apartment. As he comes through the door, his wife starts yelling at him for tracking in mud. Patrick then explodes, punching a hole in the wall. This example best illustrates the
A. empathy-altruism helping theory.
B. arousal: cost-reward theory.
C. frustration-aggression hypothesis.
D. evolutionary theory of aggression.
