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Want to read about some creepy-deepy prison experiments that they made a movie out of? You're in luck! This SAT Reading video is all about the Stanford experiments.
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- 00:02
alright Shmoopers we're starting another section here and this is all
- 00:07
creepy DP psychology stuff actually very famous experiments that they actually [text on screen]
- 00:12
made a movie out of at least part of its embargo is a legend at Stanford in [Stanford campus]
- 00:16
psychology so here we go if you've read the passage carefully then you can
- 00:20
answer this question but you probably haven't so we're gonna go back and skim
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- 00:23
it I mean purpose of passage want you to do what so let's go back and let's kind [text on screen]
- 00:28
of skim this puppy all right if we can critique its research that really got
- 00:31
tons my critical and unlike I think real life doing setting all this up via real
- 00:35
life events things experiment in conformity knows I'm conforming ever
- 00:37
wants to agree on everything okay we're just getting other results and for me I
- 00:41
like to be like and illusion thingy down here in passage one is a critique of
- 00:46
social science research and the answer here well today the two main points the [writing on chalk board]
- 00:51
author makes are that the experimental results do not predict real life
- 00:56
outcomes and that results can often be explained in more than one way well
- 01:00
explaining the Asch experiment is an important part of the passage but it's
- 01:04
used simply as an example the author does suggest alternate explanations for
- 01:08
the Asch experiment but but he does it to point out how social sciences well
- 01:12
unreliable so let's study a whole lot of social science well the muler lie or
- 01:16
optical illusion is presented to support a detail but it's not the main idea of
- 01:20
the passage so go with critiquing social science research by questioning the [ people discussing]
- 01:24
results of a famous experiment when in doubt it's always questioned the
- 01:28
results that's a good one these test questions
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