The results of Milgram's obedience experiments demonstrated:
a. most people will not obey orders to harm others in the lab
b. males but not females will obey orders to shock another person
c. a majority of people will obey orders that they know are unreasonable
d. psychiatrists overestimate the percentage of individuals who will follow orders
C
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The _____ approach tends to see personality as an etic or universal phenomenon that is equivalently relevant and meaningful in the cultures being compared
a) cross-cultural b) cultural indigenous c) psychological anthropological d) cultural relativism
Which of the following is an accurate statement?
a. ?Epigenetic tags continue to accumulate in response to ongoing experience throughout the life span. b. ?Epigenetic tags are formed in the early life span, but deteriorate in old age. c. ?Epigenetic tags replace internal signals in driving physical growth after birth. d. ?Epigenetic tags only form during prenatal development due to external influences such as the mother’s diet.
Most psychological disorders appear to be influenced by many individual genes rather than caused by one single gene, a type of influence referred to as
A. systemic. B. polygenic. C. unigenic. D. morphogenic.
Research investigations examining the stability of personality over long periods of time show that:
a. individuals who are introverted in childhood tend to be introverted in adulthood b. individuals who are introverted in childhood tend to become extraverted in adulthood c. most people who are introverted in childhood become neurotic in adulthood d. people who are extraverted in childhood tend to become psychotic in adulthood