Vygotsky's theory is growing in influence because
A) he emphasized how children and adolescents progress cognitively from stage to stage.
B) his idea that children's and adolescents' comprehension of the world is an outcome of
their interactions with their parents, peers, and other members of society is both appealing
and well supported by research findings.
C) he emphasized the link between brain development processes and
information-processing perspectives.
D) research findings are supportive of his ideas that cognitive development proceeds
through gradual quantitative improvements in attention, perception, understanding, and
memory.
B
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The primary goal of Phil Zimbardo's 1972 Stanford Prison Experiment was to:*
a. evaluate what individual characteristics would make the best prison guards. b. determine if specific personality types contributed to more prison riots. c. determine the psychological influence of prison life on inmates and guards. d. evaluate the effects of gender on prison behavior.
The extensive debriefings of those participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed that participants who had the role of guards:
a. were faced with the reality of the cruelty they had inflicted on others. b. avoided blaming the "victims," in this case the prisoners. c. were not able to justify their behavior. d. were not as shaken up as they previously thought.