When a Study Was Conducted Assessing the Likelihood of Subjects

question 14

Multiple Choice

When a study was conducted assessing the likelihood of subjects to administer electric shocks to other human beings,it was observed that:

• A) men were more likely to respond with aggression against the experimenter when they were instructed to administer shocks that they did not want to give.
• B) women were more likely to do what they were told by the experimenter because they did not have a good understanding of the machinery that they were asked to manipulate.
• C) women were more likely than men to administer what they believed to be more painful shocks.
• D) men were more likely than women to administer what they believed to be more painful shocks.

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