Recall that in the Stanford Prison Study conducted by Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo (1973), guards became increasingly aggressive and prisoners became increasingly submissive and withdrawn, all in under a week. Results of this (aborted) study suggest that. A. social roles can take on a power all their own. B. norms in the real world are often adopted in artificial settings. C. humans are inherently aggressive and will "act out" in the appropriate situation. D. interdependence can be reduced in powerful situations.

In 2016, two-year-old lane graves was wading in the lagoon of an orlando walt disney world resort and watching a family outdoor movie, when an alligator snatched the boy and disappeared. the resort had signs which read "no swimming, deep drop off" posted along the beach area where lane was taken, and his parents were a few feet away when the incident occurred. several hours later, lane's body was discovered about 15 yards from where he was taken by the gator. a disney employee said this was not the first time an alligator had been spotted in the lagoon beach area. if the graves family files a lawsuit against the resort, what theory would best support their claim?

The controlled use of fire by hominids: (a) limited the expansion of hominids into certain environments, such as dry grasslands. (b) decreased the amount of food energy available in the hominid diet. (c) contributed to geographical expansion and food production techniques in positive ways. (d) has been shown to contribute little to the digestive process of hominids.

It is widely assumed that people need to engage in intellectual activities such as solving crossword puzzles or mathematics problems in order to maintain mental sharpness as they age. in fact, however, simply talking to other people—that is, participating in social interaction, which engages many mental and perceptual skills—suffices. evidence to this effect comes from a study showing that the more social contact people report, the better their mental skills. which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the force of the evidence cited? (a) as people grow older, they are often advised to keep exercising their physical and mental capacities in order to maintain or improve them. (b) many medical conditions and treatments that adversely affect a person's mental sharpness also tend to increase that person's social isolation. (c) many people are proficient both in social interactions and in solving mathematical problems. (d) the study did not itself collect data but analyzed data bearing on the issue from prior studies. (e) the tasks evaluating mental sharpness for which data were compiled by the study were more akin to mathematics problems than to conversation.