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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?

  • 11:10
  • 10:11
  • 12:9
  • 9:12

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