Question

​participants in one experiment were either frustrated or not frustrated. they then were given what they thought was an opportunity to administer electric shocks to either the person who had frustrated them or a stranger. this experiment was designed to test which part of the frustration‑aggression hypothesis?

Answer 1

The correct answer is displacement. 

According to Dollard et al.'s frustration-aggression hypothesis, aggression is caused by and followed by feelings of frustration or anger. In terms of this hypothesis, displacement refers to the phenomenon where frustration causes individuals to direct their aggression on to something or someone who has nothing to do with the actual cause or source of the person's frustration.