Having Observed Participants in His Simulated Prison Study,Philip Zimbardo Offered

question 44

Multiple Choice

Having observed participants in his simulated prison study,Philip Zimbardo offered an explanation for the destructive behavior of U.S. military guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison. Zimbardo's explanation best exemplified

• A)a dispositional attribution.
• B)the two-factor theory.
• C)a situational attribution.
• D)cognitive dissonance.

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