A. The experimenters got enough data
B. Too many participants quit
C. The administration could not longer support it
D. The participants were taking their roles too seriously
Related Mcqs:
- Why did Zimbardo and his collaborators (1982) have to terminate their Stanford Prison Study?
A. The participants were not conforming to their roles
B. The guards were not prepared to harass, humiliate and intimidate the prisoners
C. The prisoners increasingly showed signs of individual and group disintegration
D. The experiment was set in a real prison with real prisoners, which raised a fierce human rights debate - During the Stanford Prison study:
A. Guards did not take their roles seriously
B. guards readily assumed their roles as agents of force
C. the prisoners and the guards quickly became friendly towards one another
D. three prisoners were so severely beaten they had to be hospitalized - How many factors does Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales—Fifth Edition feature for each of which yields an index score?
A. Four
B. Four or five
C. Exactly five
D. Exactly three - Stanford Binet test cover which of the following age group?
A. From age 25+
B. The entire lifespan (ages 2-85+)
C. From age 2-50 years
D. Academic - In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?
A. factorial design
B. within subjects design
C. between subjects design
D. quasi-experimental design - If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?
A. invalid
B. biased
C. error
D. unreliable - An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:
A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
B. rote memory scores
C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue - Why should early problem behavior not by neglected?
A. Early interventions may be costly, but they are more cost effective than ignoring the problem- this would result in higher costs of society for dealing with delinquent children later in life
B. If acted on interventions can be effective at reducing future delinquency
C. It is predictive of later more serious behavior
D. All of the above - Solomon Asch designed an experiment in which participants made judgements about the length of lines. He was studying_________?
A. Compliance
B. Obedience
C. Rule making
D. Conformity - Two early contributors to American sociology are Jene Addams and______.
A. Max Weber
B. W. E. B. DuBois
C. Herbert Spencer
D. Harriet Martineau
