Read "What makes good people do bad things?", by MELISSA DITTMANN
Which statement best supports Zimbardo’s belief that people are not born “good” or “evil”?
A
. “‘Any of us can move across it... I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil — to be Mother Theresa, to be Hitler or Saddam Hussein.’” ( Paragraph 3)
B
. “In one condition, they overheard an assistant calling the other students ‘animals’ and in another condition, ‘nice.’” ( Paragraph 8)
C
. “The same social psychological processes… that acted in the Stanford Prison Experiment were at play at Abu Ghraib, Zimbardo argued.” ( Paragraph 16)
D
. “As such, the Abu Ghraib soldiers' mental state… may have further contributed to their ‘evil’ actions, he noted.” ( Paragraph 18)
Answer: A
. “‘Any of us can move across it... I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil — to be Mother Theresa, to be Hitler or Saddam Hussein.’” ( Paragraph 3)
Explanation:
Zimbardo claims that the line between good and evil is permeable, meaning that people are not born “good” or “evil”. On the contrary, everyone can cross that line, especially under certain circumstances. For example, the soldiers´ mental state and the lack of supervision, training, or accountability led to the abuse of an Iraqi prisoner in Abu Ghraib.
Answer:
Because it had not rained for several months, there was a ...shortage................... of water.
I'm gonna go with A. Inductive reasoning deals mostly with predictions and behavior. Specific examples are combined and used to make general assumptions.
Answer:
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Explanation:
I vividly remember rushing home on my bike. The storm was getting worse, I could only see clearly for at least 20 feet. I sped up, due to the loud sounds of the storm behind me. It felt weird, ya know, to be riding a bike during this horrible storm. I would usually be riding home with my best friend Donovan, but being the nut he is he's stuck in detention. I sped up on my bike, ready to take a sharp left turn, but as soon as I did my bike slid. I didn't scream, not until a saw a strike of lightning hit my bike. And as you and I know, electricity can pass through metal very easily, so I screamed out of pain as the electricity passed throughout my body. It wasn't for long, but I flopped onto the ground as I let out a shaky sigh. Suddenly, a pair of lights appeared on my face, it was a car- heading straight my way. I couldn't move, so out of fear and shock, I put my hand up and screamed "STOP!". I shut my eyes tight, so tight it was beginning to hurt, but soon it felt like everything in me was being collected in one spot. The center, and before I knew it, everything blasted out, and I heard a huge crash. Opening one of my eyes out of curiosity, I can't express the emotion I felt when I saw the car on it's side, some feet away from me. I opened my other eye, and I was so confused, it was scary. Despite the pain, I picked up my bike and ran on the sidewalk with it, before hopping on and riding away. I could hear the man in the car calling "Hey kid- kid? Are you alright? What happened?" I shut my eyes and rid faster, all the way home.
