Psych 150 Exam 4 Correctly Answered.
Zimbardo's prison experiment - CORRECT ANSWER Done at Stanford; August, 1971, 6 days;
assigned a group of students to play either the role of prison guard or prisoner; prisoners were locked up in the basement of the psychology building, and the guards were ...
assigned a group of students to play either the role of prison guard or prisoner; prisoners were locked
up in the basement of the psychology building, and the guards were put in charge of their treatment -
students took their assigned roles perhaps too well, and the experiment had to be ended early because
of the cruel treatment the guards were inflicting on the prisoners.
Zimbardo, superintendent, allowed abuse to continue. Christina Maslach objected.
Impossible to reproduce.
Milgram obedience experiment - CORRECT ANSWER Milgram selected participants for his experiment by
newspaper advertising for male participants to take part in a study of learning at Yale University. The
procedure was that the participant was paired with another person and they drew lots to find out who
would be the 'learner' and who would be the 'teacher'. The draw was fixed so that the participant was
always the teacher, and the learner was one of Milgram's confederates (pretending to be a real
participant).
65% reached the full 450 volts, all reached 300 volts.
prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an
individual to feel, think or act in a negative way toward another person or group.
stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER a generalized belief about a group of people
self-serving bias - CORRECT ANSWER The tendency to attribute one's success to internal factors while
attributing one's failures to external factors.
Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER occurs when the "weaker" of two cultures adopts traits from the
more dominant culture
Ethnic identity - CORRECT ANSWER A person's identification with a racial or ethnic group.
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