According to the Authors of the Textbook, What Is a Key

question 185

Multiple Choice

According to the authors of the textbook, what is a key reason why psychology took almost 300 years longer than physics, biology, and chemistry to become scientific?

• A) Early scientific methodology was too primitive to use to study the mind.
• B) Laws were passed in the 1600s that made studying the mind illegal.
• C) Few people were interested in the mind and behavior prior to the 20^th century.
• D) The zeitgeist of the 1600s prevented people from believing that science could be applied to the study of the mind.

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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.