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luminitza

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Recall that in the Stanford Prison Study conducted by Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo (1973), guards became increasingly aggressive and prisoners became increasingly submissive and withdrawn, all in under a week. Results of this (aborted) study suggest that
 
  a. social roles can take on a power all their own.
  b. norms in the real world are often adopted in artificial settings.
  c. humans are inherently aggressive and will act out in the appropriate situation.
  d. interdependence can be reduced in powerful situations.

Question 2

Shared group expectations about how particular group members are expected to behave are called
 
  a. norms.
  b. expectancy effects.
  c. roles.
  d. collective standards.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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