What do the text authors say about the kind of willingness to obey authority that Milgram witnessed in his research?
a. Milgram's research seems to have been an anomaly; people are not usually so obedient to authority in any kind of situation.
b. Milgram's research seems to have been an anomaly; people usually are quite obedient when it comes to trivial or innocuous orders, but they are almost never so obedient when it comes to dangerous orders.
c. People usually are quite obedient to authority, and Milgram's research demonstrates just how dangerous obedience is.
d. People usually are quite obedient to authority, but most of the time this obedience has prosocial consequences; the situation that Milgram created in his research is very unique.
D
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a. found some evidence of cognitive decline associated with the drug. b. did not find evidence of cognitive decline associated with the drug. c. found evidence of brain damage in several areas of the central nervous system. d. found evidence of cognitive enhancement in creative skills.
As a scientific discipline, psychology is ____
a. ?one of the newest b. ?one of the oldest c. ?the only one to have started in the United States d. ?one of the newest and one of the oldest e. ?None of the choices are correct
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A. productive, exceptional people B. psychologically disturbed patients C. college students D. laboratory animals
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a. only reactance occurs b. only learned helplessness occurs c. neither reactance nor learned helplessness occurred under the conditions he studied d. both reactance and learned helplessness occurred depending upon conditions