What Is the Principal Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment

question 15

Multiple Choice

What is the principal lesson of the Stanford prison experiment?

• A) Self-preservation is weakly related to social circumstances.
• B) Self-concept is weakly related to social circumstances.
• C) Self-concept is strongly related to social circumstances.
• D) Self-preservation is strongly related to social circumstances.

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Definitions:

Special Significance

A term indicating that something holds particular importance or value in a given context.

Sacred Meaning

The significance attributed to a thing, practice, or phenomenon considered holy, divine, or spiritually significant within a cultural or religious context.

False Consciousness

A term primarily associated with Marxist theory, referring to the way in which material, ideological, and institutional processes in capitalist society mislead the proletariat and other classes about the realities of their subjugation.

Proletariats

The working-class people who do not own the means of production and must sell their labor to survive, a term often used in Marxist theory.