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SAT Reading: Identifying the Main Purpose of a Social Science Passage 3 Views


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Want to read about some creepy-deepy prison experiments that they made a movie out of? You're in luck! This SAT Reading video is all about the Stanford experiments.


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alright Shmoopers we're starting another section here and this is all

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creepy DP psychology stuff actually very famous experiments that they actually [text on screen]

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made a movie out of at least part of its embargo is a legend at Stanford in [Stanford campus]

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psychology so here we go if you've read the passage carefully then you can

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answer this question but you probably haven't so we're gonna go back and skim

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it I mean purpose of passage want you to do what so let's go back and let's kind [text on screen]

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of skim this puppy all right if we can critique its research that really got

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tons my critical and unlike I think real life doing setting all this up via real

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life events things experiment in conformity knows I'm conforming ever

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wants to agree on everything okay we're just getting other results and for me I

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like to be like and illusion thingy down here in passage one is a critique of

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social science research and the answer here well today the two main points the [writing on chalk board]

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author makes are that the experimental results do not predict real life

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outcomes and that results can often be explained in more than one way well

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explaining the Asch experiment is an important part of the passage but it's

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used simply as an example the author does suggest alternate explanations for

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the Asch experiment but but he does it to point out how social sciences well

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unreliable so let's study a whole lot of social science well the muler lie or

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optical illusion is presented to support a detail but it's not the main idea of

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the passage so go with critiquing social science research by questioning the [ people discussing]

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results of a famous experiment when in doubt it's always questioned the

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results that's a good one these test questions

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