Question

1. assessment: which detail from the text best demonstrates how labeling can lead to evil acts?

a. \in fact, the classic electric shock experiment...showed that when given an order by someone in authority, people would deliver what they believed to be extreme levels of electrical shock to other study participants\ (paragraph 4)
b. \bandura found students were more apt to deliver what they believed were increased levels of electrical shock to the other students if they had heard them called animals.\ (paragraph 8)
c. \as it turned out, 80 percent of warriors in these cultures were found to be more destructive — for example, killing, torturing or mutilating their victims — than unpainted or unmasked warriors.\ (paragraph 11)
d. \its not just seeing people hurt, its doing things that you have a sense that you are controlling behavior of other people in ways that

Explanation:

To determine which detail shows how labeling leads to evil acts, we analyze each option:

• Option A: Describes obedience to authority in an electric shock experiment, not related to labeling.
• Option B: Bandura's study shows students delivered more shock when others were labeled "animals", directly linking labeling to an evil - like act (increased shock delivery).
• Option C: Compares painted/masked and unpainted/unmasked warriors' destructiveness, related to appearance/masking, not labeling.
• Option D: Talks about the sense of controlling others' behavior, not about labeling.

Answer:

B. "Bandura found students were more apt to deliver what they believed were increased levels of electrical shock to the other students if they had heard them called 'animals.'" (Paragraph 8)