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6. What year was the study carried out in?
7. Which prisoner broke down first?
8. How were prisoners punished on the first night?
- Beaten up
- Chained up
- Solitary confinement and taunted
- Not given any food
9. How did the guards abuse their power?
- Ignored prisoners
- Degrading and humiliating treatment
- Didn't give prisoners any food
- Made fun of prisoners
10. What happened on day 5?
- Zimbardo invited his girlfriend who hated it and the following day experiment shut down
- Zimbardo invited his girlfriend
- Zimbardo invited his girlfriend who loved it and the following day it was shut down
- The experiment was shut down
11. How many guards and prisoners were there?
- 12 of each
- 10 guards 14 prisoners
- 10 of each
- 14 of each
12. What type of power did the guards have?
- Abusive power
- Power to be mean
- Power without restraint
- Pathology of power
13. How did the experiment have low reliability?
- It was not repeated and due to the individual aspects it would be hard to replicate
- The prisoners fear was real
- Opinion and interpretation about what they were doing in experiment
- Guards had no training and prisoners were not actually criminals
14. How much were they paid for participating?
- Nothing
- $15 for whole experiment
- $15/day
- $15/hour
15. What year was the study published?
16. How did they decide the roles of guard and prisoner?
- Flipped a coin
- Alphabetical
- Decided as they entered the room
- Participants got to choose
17. Who made up the sample?
- 24 male college students
- 12 female college students
- 12 male college students
- 24 female college students
18. What happened on the first night?
- Guards let prisoners free
- Guards rebelled
- Prisoners rebelled
- Party
19. What is the term for abused power?
- Power that is abused
- Pathology of power
- Power
- Pathology of abuse
