Stanford Prison

What was the goal of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment?

• To discover what prisoners did to make guards hate them

• To understand what caused guards to treat prisoners badly

• To find out why guards are sadistic and cruel people

• To uncover how to make prisons more fair environments

Why do the researchers believe that the subjects acted as they did?

• The subjects began to think that the experiment would never end.

• The guards were all secretly sadistic and the prisoners all unknowingly submissive.

• The subjects were following the roles they were expected to play.

• Zimbardo and his team accidentally allowed people with anger disorders to take part in the experiment.

Which of the following quotes best encompasses a central idea of the study's findings?

• "Within a very short time both guards and prisoners were settling into their new roles" (Paragraph 10)

• "As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more aggressive and assertive" (Paragraph 16)

• "the roles that people play can shape their behavior and attitudes" (Paragraph 19)

• "Many said they hadn't known this side of them existed or that they were capable of such things" (Paragraph 21)

What does the word "deindividuation" mean as it is used in paragraph 7?

• The process of adopting someone into a group.

• The process of physically torturing a person to make them feel inferior.

• The process of making someone feel uncomfortable and ashamed.

• The process of stripping someone of their identity.

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Which of the following quotes best encompasses a central idea of the study’s findings?

• “Within a very short time both guards and prisoners were settling into their new roles” (Paragraph 10)

• “As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more aggressive and assertive” (Paragraph 16)

• “the roles that people play can shape their behavior and attitudes” (Paragraph 19)

• “Many said they hadn’t known this side of them existed or that they were capable of such things” (Paragraph 21)

What was the purpose of this experiment?

• To determine whether the guards brutality was situational

• To scare the “prisoners” of what happens when they commit a crime

• To give these men the experience of prison

What was the goal of the procedure for the experiment?

• To make the experience as terrifying as possible for the prisoners

• To create an environment where violence was very likely to occur.

• To make it difficult but not impossible for a prisoner to get hurt

• To make the arrests and prison as life-like, though safe, as possible

Which of the following best characterizes the early period of the experiment?

• Prisoners and guards resisted their roles because they thought the experiment was foolish.

• Subjects quickly became affected by their power or lack of power.

• Prisoners began to plan to overthrow the guards.

• Prisoners and guards quickly began to taunt one another.

Which statement best describes why the study ended early?

• Increasingly abusive behavior threatened to permanently harm some subjects.

• All the subjects were becoming too aggressive and violence could have broken out.

• The experiment was making all of the participants sad.

• Zimbardo feared that he could be arrested for continuing the experiment.