1. Value Statements for Psychology

2. Using animals for psychological research is inhumane and should be severely limited.

3. Spanking and other forms of physical punishment help develop “good” children.

4. Prejudice results from prejudiced parents.

5. Insanity as a legal defense should be abolished.

6. If I had my life to live over, I would come back as the other sex.

7. Eyewitness testimony should be used in courts to find the truth.

8. The way a person dresses tells a lot about a person.

9. Most people have an accurate understanding of the reasons for their own behavior.

10. Heredity plays the major role in determining IQ.

11. People’s attitudes and values remain pretty much the same throughout their lives.

12. Knowing that a person behaved honestly in one situation tells you little about whether he or she will behave honestly in a different situation.

13. Aggression is a part of human nature and thus will always be a part of social life.

14. People don’t change. They may do things differently, but the important parts of who they are can’t be altered.