There Is a Powerful Scene in the Classic Film to Kill

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Multiple Choice

There is a powerful scene in the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird.Atticus Finch,a small town lawyer,is on the courthouse steps standing guard over Tom Robinson,an African-American prisoner who he is defending.A mob of townspeople and local farmers approaches the courthouse,demanding that Atticus turn over Robinson; they are intent on administering their own form of vigilante justice.Suddenly,Atticus's young daughter Scout steps forward.She doesn't understand what's about to happen,and begins to address people in the crowd,"Hey,Mr.Cunningham.How's your boy? I like Walter,but I haven't seen him in awhile." As Scout innocently addresses a number of individuals in the crowd,they begin to leave one-by-one,until the whole lynch mob is disbanded.This classic movie scene best illustrates which social psychological phenomenon?

• A) social facilitation
• B) diffusion of responsibility
• C) the bystander effect
• D) social loafing
• E) deindividuation

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Definitions:

Operon

Group of genes together with a promoter-operator DNA sequence that controls their transcription.

Promoter

A region of DNA that initiates transcription of a particular gene, recognized and bound by enzymes and other proteins to start gene expression.

Genes

Units of heredity made up of DNA, acting as instructions to make molecules called proteins.

Prokaryotic Operon

A prokaryotic operon is a functioning unit of genomic DNA containing a cluster of genes under the control of a single promoter and is regulated together, typically found in bacteria.