If You Ask 100 Randomly Selected People About Their Sexual

question 145

Multiple Choice

If you ask 100 randomly selected people about their sexual orientation,about ____ will have a homosexual orientation.

• A) 1.7%
• B) 2.9%
• C) 5.3%
• D) 8.1%

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

A psychological study conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University, where students were assigned roles of prisoners and guards to explore the effects of perceived power.

Generalization

Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristic of a population based on a sample from it.

Logical Support

The provision of reasons or evidence to justify a claim or argument.