A. People will engage in high levels of destructive obedience when faced with strong situational pressures
B. People will engage in low levels of destructive obedience when faced with strong situational pressures
C. People’s personality is the strongest determinant of obedient behaviour
D. People will challenge authority figures when they become distressed by their commands
Related Mcqs:
- Experiments based on cognitive dissonance theory have examined the relationship between behavioural compliance and attitude change. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from these experiments?
A. Behavioural compliance never leads to attitude change
B. The lesser the inducement for compliance, the more the attitude change
C. The greater the inducement for compliance the more the attitude change
D. Behavioural compliance always leads to attitude change - Which of the following is true of Milgram’s (1963) study of obedience? The study found that:
A. Quite ordinary people taking part in a laboratory experiment were not prepared to administer electric shocks just because an experimenter told them to do so
B. Participants believed that the shocks they administered would not harm anyone
C. Apparently pathological behaviour may not be due to individual pathology but to particular social circumstances
D. None of the above - _______developed detailed conclusions concerning learning, transfer, and reactive inhibition for learning theory and for education:
A. E.j.Swenson
B. Binet
C. Lloyod Allen cook
D. Nojne of the above - Incompleteness of data of interpretation or unwarranted application of conclusions also may be a cause of research:
A. Adequacy
B. Inadequacy
C. Application
D. Disturbance - ___________________________of the approach point to objectivity, precise thinking and logical development leading to generalisable conclusions. it is an analytical piece-by-piece collection of information:
A. Advocates
B. Decision makers
C. Individuals
D. Researchers - In Milgram’s research on obedience, what was the teacher’s perception of what would happen when the learner made a mistake?
A. The learner would receive a shock
B. The teacher would be receive a shock
C. The experiment would have to be terminated
D. The teacher would be asked to change places with the learner - The corrupt behavior of many ordinary people who served as Nazi concentration camp guards best illustrates that immorality often results from:
A. crystallized intelligence
B. social influence
C. abnormal cognitive development
D. postconventional moral thinking - In _________ method of study in psychology, passive study and analysis of human behaviour is usually done.
A. Introspection Method
B. Experimental Method
C. Observational Method
D. Genetic Method - Dr. Jamil wants to study the effects of poverty on one’s self concept. To do this he interviews a group of subjects from the inner city once every five years for a period of 30 years. This experiment is an example of what type-of study?
A. Correlational study
B. cross sectional study
C. Gesell’s dome
D. longitudinal study - Lauren and Curtis spend six hours per week studying for the botany course. Lauren is concerned that if she doesn’t study she will fail the course; Curtis is concerned that if he doesn’t study he won’t earn the highest grade in the class. In this example:
A. Lauren is motivated by both a fear of failure and a need for achievement, while Curtis is merely motivated by a need for achievement
B. Lauren is motivated by a fear of failure and Curtis is motivated by a need for achievement
C. both students are motivated by a need for achievement
D. both students are motivated by a fear of failure
