Zimbardo Concluded from His Stanford Prison Study That Prisoners and Guards

question 20

Multiple Choice

Zimbardo concluded from his Stanford prison study that prisoners and guards adopted their designated roles more easily than anyone might have imagined because of

• A)conformity.
• B)obedience.
• C)influence.
• D)deindividuation.

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Definitions:

VMPL

The Value of Marginal Product of Labor, which represents the additional revenue generated by employing one more unit of labor.

Profit

The financial gain realized when the amount of revenue gained exceeds the expenses, costs, and taxes needed to sustain the operation.

Marginal Productivity

The additional output that can be produced by adding one more unit of a specific input, keeping all other inputs constant.

Perfectly Competitive

A type of market where numerous small firms compete against each other offering products that are virtually interchangeable and where no single company can dictate the market price.