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AP Psychology 3.5 History and Approaches. Dr. Phillip Zimbardo studied which of the following?
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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by dr. Phil Zimbardo
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the founder of the heroic imagination project which advocate for everyday [Dr Zimbardo sitting at a table]
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heroism and bringing back phone booth okay let's see our question dr. Philip
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Zimbardo studied which of the following art and our potential answers are all
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right so why do all these answers sound so familiar well it could be because
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each answer describes a famous experiment in psychology or maybe we're
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repressing something anyway we know that only one of these answers was studied by [Dr Frankenstein turns on machine and monster electrocutes]
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our man Zimbardo so let's take a look at our choices we know it isn't answer a [Zimbardo reading a book]
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because a describes the conformity experiments of Solomon Asch in Ash's
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experiment a real participant was put in a room with several actors pretending to [Participants sit by a table]
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be participant the whole group was then shown to card one with a single line on
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it and another with three lines on it on the second card one line was the same
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length as that on the previous card while the others were clearly not the
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group was then asked to identify the line that was the same length [Man hands out cards to participants]
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however ash sometimes had his actors unanimously give an incorrect answer in
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order to see if the true participant would conform with the group and provide
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the clearly wrong answer as well his findings yeah about a third of the
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participants knowingly gave the wrong answer in order to fit in with the rest
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of the group it's an interesting study but Zimbardo had nothing to do with it
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Zimbardo had nothing to do with C either C is all about the Milgram experiment on
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obedience the goal of the study was to see how obedient people would be to [Man points to red button]
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authority figures when given instructions that conflicted with their
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own personal moral the experiment had participants deliver an increasingly [Woman electrocuted as man presses button]
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painful electric shock to other participants who were actually just
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actors for answering incorrect answers well despite their apprehension 65% of
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participants obeyed orders and continued the electrocution to the maximum voltage
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showing that obedience is a deeply ingrained quality answer D describes
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Mary Ames a strange situation developed in the [Mary Ainsworth appears]
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1970s to observe attachment relationships between infants and their
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mothers she determined that babies had three attachment style secure insecure [Baby jumps up at mother]
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and disorganized later findings suggested that no matter what attachment
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style an individual had in infancy by the age of 14 all attachment style [Mom and son in room with psychologist]
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shifted to mom please stop you're embarrassing me and answer II described
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the Kohlberg experiment which used a series of stories focused on moral
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dilemmas in order to produce what Kohlberg humbly named Kohlberg stages of
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moral development all right well his most famous story was [Robber in street and two officers appear]
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called the Heinz dilemma it actually involved a man named Hank
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stealing an expensive cancer drug that he couldn't afford to purchase in order
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to save his wife from dying of cancer the Kohlberg concluded that his children [Woman laid in hospital bed]
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got older they became better at grasping the moral complexities of such a dilemma
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well he also gave kids everywhere the intellectual tools to argue that maybe [Boy enters kitchen and mom is cooking]
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stealing a cookie from the cookie jars and more complex moral dilemma than
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their parents are making it out to be and yeah that's a separate issue
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that leaves us would B....B describes the famous Stanford Prison Experiment which
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was conducted by you guessed at one mr. Philip Zimbardo conducted in 1971
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Zimbardo created a mock prison and assigned participants roles is either
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prisoner or guard the participants took their roles so seriously that the [Psychologist waves to officer]
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experiment had to be stopped after only six days because the guards began
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abusing their power and mistreating the prisoners causing severe emotional
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distress it's kind of like when you play cops and robbers on the playground [People playing cops and robbers on field]
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except in a prison and scary and far more ethically ambiguous no it is
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however the answer we were looking for B if only someone had had a phone booth to [Zimbardo stood by phone booth]
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change in well maybe they could have stopped the experiments a little bit
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sooner
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