AP PSYCHOLOGY

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

VISION SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Social psychologists who did the Stanford Prison Experiment testing Role Playing.
A
Leon Festinger
B
Soloman Asch
C
Phillip Zimbardo
D
Milgram
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Zimbardo was a former classmate of the psychologist Stanley Milgram. Milgram is best known for his famous obedience experiment. Zimbardo was interested in expanding upon Milgram’s research. He wanted to further investigate the impact of situational variables on human behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Q: Who participated in the experiment? A: From more than 75 people who responded to the ad, 24 students were chosen: 12 to role play prisoners (9 plus 3 alternates) and 12 to role play guards (also 9 plus 3 alternates).

Detailed explanation-3: -Philip Zimbardo is a contemporary social psychologist best known for his Stanford Prison Study.

Detailed explanation-4: -Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford for over 30 years, is known for his work on the Stanford prison experiment which demonstrated the power of social situations through a mock prison experiment with normal, healthy college students.

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