Your Textbook Discusses a Research Study That Attempted to Test

question 45

Multiple Choice

Your textbook discusses a research study that attempted to test the ability of graphologists to distinguish among three groups of people based on their handwriting. The three groups were:

• A)astrologers, graphologists, and psychologists.
• B)successful and unsuccessful secretaries, actors and monks, and librarians and entrepreneurs.
• C)priests, politicians, and scientists.
• D)successful and unsuccessful actors, secretaries and circus performers, and janitors and pilots.

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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.