36) A clothing plant in a small town downsizes and fires a large number of employees.  According to Frustration-Aggression theory, the unemployed workers are likely to:

B.     Aggress against lower-class residents of the town

    Correct.

B Is correct because frustration aggression theory predicts that when individuals are frustrated and cannot aggress against the source of their frustration, they will attack less powerful groups.  In this case the lower-class residents would serve as a scapegoat, especially if many of them are a different ethnicity or religion than the workers. (See Myers, 359-360; Aronson, 337-340)