In the 1960s, Psychologists Conducted a Study at a Summer

question 93

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, psychologists conducted a study at a summer camp for 11-year old boys. Researchers in the Robbers Cave experiment altered the conditions so that they were able to both increase group hostility (with competition) and decrease group hostility (with cooperation) . Through altering these conditions, the psychologists were demonstrating this goal of psychology

• A)description
• B)understanding
• C)prediction
• D)control

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Definitions:

Asexual Reproduction

A mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, inheriting the genes of that parent only, seen in many plants and some animal species.

Vegetative Propagation

A form of asexual reproduction in plants where new individuals are formed without the production of seeds or spores.

Gametes

Reproductive cells (sperm in males and eggs in females) that contain half the genetic information of the parent and can unite with another gamete to form a zygote.

Meiosis

A biological process of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating four haploid cells, each genetically distinct from the parent cell.