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SAT Reading: Identifying Similarities Between Experiments Described in Two Social Science Passages 1 Views


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What do the Stanford, Milgram and Zimbardo experiments have in common? This SAT Reading video will enlighten you.


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all right next up from the Stanford Prison of Venu County in Zimbardo land

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here we go when Soleri between the experiment described in the two passages [text on screen]

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is that they what the most basic element that all of these experiments have in

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common is that they were all about conformity which we know from the first

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lines of paragraphs 2 & 7 since no line segments or people were hurt in the

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first experiment well it's tough to say it faced ethical issues the experiments

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with line lengths in passage 1 are not very relevant to daily life but it

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doesn't hold true for the experiments in passage 2 those are very relevant safety [writing on chalkboard]

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was an issue in the Stanford experiment but not really in the other two so you

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can't make a blanket statement in that they all did this so the right answer

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it's B they all attempted to assess conformity [lego men in a row]

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