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In his reformulation of contagion theory, Blumer defined ____ as the stage in which people begin to lose their own identities, and take on the identity of the crowd.
 
  a. rising expectations
  b. social contagion
  c. milling
  d. collective excitement
  e. premonition

Question 2

Professor Johnson wishes to study the effects that violence in the movies has on aggressive behavior. She divides 30 subjects into two groups of 15 . One group of subjects watches Terminator 3, and the other group watches Bruce Almighty. After viewing the movies, the members of both groups are placed in a stressful situation and their behavior is monitored. In this experiment, the group viewing Terminator 3 is the:
 
  a. control group.
  b. experimental group.
  c. field group.
  d. reference group.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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