Social Psychologists Conduct Research into Areas Such as Bystander Intervention

question 377

Multiple Choice

Social psychologists conduct research into areas such as bystander intervention, prejudice, conformity, aggression, and obedience to authority. However, in order to gain insight into such critical issues, researchers must create vivid events that are involving for their participants. Some of these events, by their very nature, are likely to produce a degree of discomfort in the participants, such as witnessing someone having a seizure. Thus, what is required for good science and what is required for ethical science can be contradictory. Elliot Aronson, et al., Social Psychology

• A) Argument, conclusion: Some of these events ... someone having a seizure.
• B) Argument, conclusion: Social psychologists conduct ... obedience to authority.
• C) Nonargument.
• D) Argument, conclusion: In order to gain insight ... involving for their participants.
• E) Argument; conclusion: What is required for good science ... contradictory.

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"Teacher"

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