Social Psychology, Stanford Prison Experiment 1971

A quiz about the Stanford Prison experiment, a key example of identification. 

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1. ...because his participants had ____ but _______ once they were removed from the situation

  • conformed to the minority, undergone internalisation
  • changed their views influenced others otherwise
  • changed their views, changed them back
  • been hungry, eaten
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2. Some prisoners had to be removed from the experiment because they became

  • emotionally unstable with fits of rage or crying
  • became delinquents who were seen as a danger to the guards
  • members of the public
  • angry and demanded to leave the experiment, which is their right

3. The guards had to refer to the prisoners by

  • their first names
  • their numbers
  • Mr_____
  • their surnames
  • insults like 'toerag'

4. This experiment was hugely

  • unethical
  • invalid
  • a case study and could not be used again
  • repeatable

5. The guards said they felt

  • empowered and a cleverer person
  • righteous
  • shocked and disgusted
  • sad and deflated in their faith in humanity
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