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2. What did Banuazizi and Mohavedi say about the experiment?

  • The experiment has been replicated in other cultures and results vary
  • Participants doubted the legitimacy of the prison setup
  • Participants were acting due to demand characteristics
  • Women would have been more conformist (can not be generalised)

3. What makes the experiment highly ecologically valid?

  • It was done with psychology students
  • It was done at a university
  • It was done in a prison-like environment
  • It was done in a lab

4. 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

5. What did Abu Ghraib do to support the SPE?

  • Men are more conformist than women
  • Showed that brutal treatment of prisoners occurs in real life
  • real-life prisons look like the one in the SPE
  • Prisoners misbehave in order to share a social identity, to rebel against guards

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