Participants in One Experiment Were Either Frustrated or Not Frustrated

question 4

Multiple Choice

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

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