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AEWBW

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Which of the following are examples of the power of situational factors in determining behavior?
 
  A) Good people engaging in illegal activities during the 1960s
  B) Decent Germans cooperating with the diabolical plans of the Nazis
  C) Panic arising when a movie theater catches fire
  D) Students in the 1960s getting involved in illegal forms of protest
  E) All of these

Question 2

When choosing items to include in a personality test, one wants items that
 
  A) do not correlate with other items in the scale.
  B) are abnormally distributed.
  C) can discriminate between individuals with varying levels of the trait.
  D) get similar responses from different individuals.



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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

C



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