Q 01/05

What did volunteers in Stanley Milgram's Yale obedience experiments think they were giving a learner for wrong answers?

A) Electric shocks

B) Loud noise blasts

C) Cash fines

D) Cold water baths

Answer · why

A) Electric shocks

The electric shocks were fake, but in the first study every volunteer went up to 300 volts on a machine that ran to 450. Milgram wanted to know how fa...

Q 02/05

In 1971 Philip Zimbardo turned a psychology building basement at which university into a mock jail with student guards?

A) Princeton

B) Berkeley

C) Stanford

D) Columbia

Answer · why

C) Stanford

Stanford gave the prison experiment its name, and Zimbardo ended it on the sixth day of a planned two weeks. He stopped after Christina Maslach, the p...

Q 03/05

Whose 1964 murder outside her Queens apartment building prompted Darley and Latané to study why witnesses fail to help?

A) Sharon Tate

B) Kitty Genovese

C) Elizabeth Short

D) Nicole Brown Simpson

Answer · why

B) Kitty Genovese

Kitty Genovese's death became a textbook case after reports that her neighbors heard her cries and did nothing. Those reports were later found to be w...

Q 04/05

Which American founding father names the effect in which doing someone a favor makes you like that person more?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) John Adams

C) Alexander Hamilton

D) Benjamin Franklin

Answer · why

D) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin won over a rival legislator by asking to borrow a scarce book from the man's library. He told the story in his autobiography, along ...

Q 05/05

In Albert Bandura's 1961 study of imitated aggression, children watched an adult attack which toy?

A) A Bobo doll

B) A teddy bear

C) A rocking horse

D) A Raggedy Ann

Answer · why

A) A Bobo doll

A Bobo doll was the inflatable target, and children who watched an adult hit it with a toy mallet were more likely to act aggressively themselves. Ban...