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SAT Reading: Describing the Relationship between Two Social Science Passages 2 Views
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Did you know that written passages can have relationships? Why not. This SAT Reading video will have you analyzing their relationship like a wannabe shrink!
Transcript
- 00:02
all right Lauren psycho experiment land here we go question 8 of 11 we took my
- 00:08
own bestest write the overall relationship between the two passages so [text on screen]
- 00:12
yes probably d here we go one of the main ideas in passage one is that [hand writing on paper]
- 00:15
laboratory and classroom settings where a lot of social science research is done [text on screen]
- 00:21
lack the stakes of real life not those kind of stakes although Omaha Steaks are [raw steak]
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- 00:27
our favorite the experiments in passage 2 were full of high stakes people were [poker game]
- 00:31
hurt physically and psychologically in fact the Milgram and Stanford
- 00:35
experiments were almost too real in their outcomes there's no mention of
- 00:39
ethical ramifications of experiments in passage 1 that's the domain of passage -
- 00:43
people come on you knew this get rid of a student's make fine subjects but the [student walking by]
- 00:48
research methods require changes so get rid of B and the results of the
- 00:52
experiments in passage to actually support the idea that subjects feel
- 00:56
pressured to please authority figures yeah go watch an episode of The Simpsons [text on screen]
- 01:00
if you want a counterexample but it's kind of a different story [Bart Simpson lounging]
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