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6. What evidence did Zimbardo use to support that participants believed in the prison setup?
- 90% of conversations during the experiment were about prison life
- In a survey, 85% of participants said that they began to believe in the legitimacy of the prison setup
- 100% of prisoners claimed that the prison was real by the end of the experiment
- All participants conformed to their social roles completely
7. What did Abu Ghraib do to support the SPE?
- Showed that brutal treatment of prisoners occurs in real life
- Prisoners misbehave in order to share a social identity, to rebel against guards
- real-life prisons look like the one in the SPE
- Men are more conformist than women
8. What did Fromm say about the experiment?
- Some events of the experiment were made up, as told by participants
- Female students would have conformed less
- Zimbardo exaggerated the extent to which people conformed
- Participants were displaying demand characteristics
9. What was the ratio of guards to prisoners?
10. What did Reicher & Haslam's semi-replication do to contradict the SPE?
- Guards failed to share a social identity
- Prisoners failed to share a social identity
- None of the participants conformed to social roles
- All participants were female and they conformed more than Zimbardo's
11. What was the name of the area of solitary confinement?
- The Dark Room
- The Cell
- The Hole
- The Pit