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Sufayan.ah

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How do social psychologists differ from those who rely on common sense or folk wisdom in answering questions about human nature? Social psychologists
 
  a. seldom disagree with one another.
  b. ignore the notion of human consciousness.
  c. use science to test hypotheses about the social world.
  d. rely primarily on insight.

Question 2

After the mass suicides related to the cults at Jonestown, people tended to blame the victims and accuse them of being psychologically unstable or deranged. Social psychologists are more likely to explain these mass suicides as being due to
 
  a. individual differences, such as antisocial personality.
  b. mental illness in most of the cult members.
  c. the social influence of cult leaders.
  d. the imagined presence of an all-powerful deity.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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