Which statement accurately reflects Zimbardo's view regarding the typical person's capacity for evil?
A. People are likely to refrain from wrongdoing if they attribute it to their societal context.
B. A person's potential for good or evil can be influenced by their social surroundings.
C. Conducting social experiments is essential to understand humanity's ability to commit evil.
D. Unethical actions can be legitimized if one is in a difficult social context.
Answer:
B. A person's potential for good or evil can be influenced by their social surroundings.
Explanation:
Through the Stanford prison experiment led by Philip Zimbardo, participants were placed in a setting where some had to perform as guards while others were prisoners.
The "prisoners" experienced humiliation and dehumanization from the "guards", who initially hesitated but gradually grew more comfortable with their maltreatment as time went on.
This experiment demonstrates that one's propensity for evil is heavily contingent on their social context.
The article intended for the magazine should adopt a more formal and serious tone. Elementary school children often struggle to understand certain speech forms and maintain focus for long. Scientists, on the other hand, respond better to a serious and more complex style.
Completed this for Odyssey and received a perfect score.
This question is incomplete. Here is the complete question:
Use a thesaurus to find a new word to replace the underlined word.
Write the new word on the line.
The climbing rose bush was bound to a trellis. _______
Answer:
The correct term is tied.
Explanation:
A thesaurus is a systematically organized vocabulary featuring terms that exhibit semantic and generic connections, such as equivalence, hierarchy, and association. It serves as a tool for terminological control, transforming natural language in documents into a regulated language, which uniquely represents their content for effective indexing and retrieval.
It is characterized as "a controlled and evolving vocabulary, consisting of terms that maintain semantic and generic relationships and is relevant to a specific area of knowledge".
