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Worksheet for VIDEO: "Quiet Rage: Stanford Prison Experiment" SYNOPSIS This documentary follows Philip Zimbardo's famous experiment at Stanford University. 1. What was Zimbardo's research question? (What did he want to know by conducting this experiment?) 2. Why didn't Zimbardo just use a survey as his research method? What was the advantage of using an experiment as his method? 3. What was Zimbardo's "sampling strategy? In other words, how did he recruit participants? 4. How did Zimbardo decide which participants became "guards" and which participants became "prisoners"? 5. How do you know that the participants who became "guards" were not different psychologically from the participants who became "prisoners"? 6. What happened to make Zimbardo stop the experiment? 7. What connection do you see between the discussion in your text about "research ethics" and Zimbardo's experiment?

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1. Philip Zimbardo carried out experiments through a role playing exercise in a simulated environment, at Stanford University, to find out how far would people actually fit into the role of prisoner and guards. It was aimed at finding out the psychological implications of being in a powerful position.

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