Milgram suggested an agentic state occurs when individuals become so submissive to authority that they feel little responsibility for their actions

  a.  True
  b.  False


  a.  True

Psychology

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When a child performs poorly on an activity, parents and teachers should

a. focus on the child's impaired ability and retrain the child to become "smarter" in that ability. b. isolate the negative attribute and help the child relearn the right way to perform the task. c. identify the impoverished ability and test the child on it repeatedly until the child is familiar enough with the proper way to handle the task. d. attribute the child's poor performance to the child's effort rather than to his or her ability.

Psychology

The principle of proportionality reflects the idea that

A. there should be the same proportion of jurors sympathetic to the prosecution as to the defense. B. the defendant's punishment should be related to the magnitude of the offense. C. repeat offenders should receive extensive rehabilitation. D. a defendant who commits a relatively minor crime should receive a harsh punishment if the defendant is a habitual offender.

Psychology

_____ is the tendency to engage in uncharacteristic behavior when people are stripped of their usual identities

Fill in the blank with correct word

Psychology

Men who enter careers that are dominated by women __________ than men who enter more traditional careers

A) have less interest in working with people B) are less gender-typed C) are more focused on social status D) are less liberal in their social attitudes

Psychology