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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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- 00:02
all right next up from the Stanford Prison of Venu County in Zimbardo land
- 00:07
here we go when Soleri between the experiment described in the two passages [text on screen]
- 00:10
is that they what the most basic element that all of these experiments have in
- 00:15
common is that they were all about conformity which we know from the first
- 00:19
lines of paragraphs 2 & 7 since no line segments or people were hurt in the
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- 00:25
first experiment well it's tough to say it faced ethical issues the experiments
- 00:29
with line lengths in passage 1 are not very relevant to daily life but it
- 00:33
doesn't hold true for the experiments in passage 2 those are very relevant safety [writing on chalkboard]
- 00:37
was an issue in the Stanford experiment but not really in the other two so you
- 00:40
can't make a blanket statement in that they all did this so the right answer
- 00:44
it's B they all attempted to assess conformity [lego men in a row]
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