Philip Zimbardo conducted a study in which students acted as prison guards and wound up acting brutally toward the students in the role of inmates

The fact that the "prison guards" adopted the role that they thought was appropriate indicates that the study showed
a. convergent validity.
b. causal ambiguity.
c. experimenter effects.
d. experimental realism.


d

Psychology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology