Participants in one experiment were either frustrated or not frustrated. They then were given what they thought was an opportunity to administer electric shocks to either the person who had frustrated them or a stranger. This experiment was designed to test which part of the frustration aggression hypothesis?
A. Catharsis
B. Displacement
C. Sublimation
D. Reinforcement
B
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In a ____, the researcher is able to manipulate an independent variable but NOT able to use random assignment
a. field experiment b. quasi-experiment c. correlational study d. case study
Freud's doctrine of psychic determinism was influenced by the physiologist Brücke
a. True b. False
Researchers conducted a study on "inattentional blindness" in the central gathering plaza of a university campus to determine whether individuals would notice unusual events. For half of the observation periods, a clown rode a unicycle in the plaza; in the other half of the observation periods, two costumed confederates acted a scene from Hamlet. Trained research assistants asked individuals who had walked through the plaza if they had noticed anything unusual. What type of observational study does this study represent?
A. field experiment B. structured observation C. naturalistic observation D. reactive observation
In Saegert et al.'s (1975) field study on the effects of crowding in humans, _________ was confounded with _________
a. type of task; density b. time allowed to perform the task; density c. sex of the participant; type of task d. time of day; density