Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment Included a Consent Form,which Every

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Multiple Choice

Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment included a consent form,which every research subject signed.In what way did informed consent make it more difficult to identify an emerging ethical problem?

• A)Research subjects knew that they could be assigned a prisoner role.When,then,did the suffering and humiliation of being a prisoner become too much?
• B)Research subjects all expected to be guards,not prisoners.Why,then,were some research subjects assigned roles to which they did not consent?
• C)Research subjects understood that they could be assaulted.Why,then,would any degree of assault be unethical,if people had signed up for it?
• D)Research subjects did not realize they consented to have their own criminal records used as part of the experiment.At what point was their privacy breached?

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