Reading Test Correction

Section A: Guessing vocabulary from context

1.
1) “Several young men… Were herding a large group of men down a hallway.” (paragraph) (1mark)
2) Herding mean: To gather in a crowd like in an animal in a herd (it to keep in one place)
3) Herding mean: To keep the person in the same place, to keep them all together. Mean that the young men were keeping a big group of people at the same place.
4) Paragraph 1, line 3
5) I thing I got it wrong because I did not explain it enough. And because I did not explain it well.Because I get half point.
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2.
1) “… steadily increasing their coercive aggression tactics” (paragraph 7). What does this word? (1 mark)2)to put them in the right way. Fixe the problem3) In a regular way, constant.
4) Paragraph 7, line 4
5) I did not have the good answer because I did not have the good explanation
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3.
1) “Institutional settings develop a life of their own independent of the wishes and intentions of those who run them” (paragraph 15). What does this word mean? (1 mark)
2) They have to controle them. Keep working on.
3) The people who administer the prison
4) Paragraph 15, line 6
5) I did not have the good explanation. I knew what the word mean but I did not explain it well
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Section B: structure and author’s intention

2.
1) By discussing the language the text uses and its content, explain why this article would more likely be published in a public source such as a magazine or newspaper, rather than a science magazine.
2) Because is a experience that the girl explaine to us it more like a life experience than something scientifique or phycologiste.
3) Because she is explaining to us what she lived and what happen there the feeling she had. It does not show fact and stats. And it more likes a life experience then a psychologist one.
4) All the text
5) I think it because I did not explain it enough
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Section C: General and essential ideas

1.
1) Give 2 complete reasons why Maslach does not agree that she is a heroine.
2) Because she have stop the experience, it was getting to serious and she didn’t want to be the one who stopped it because she had a hard time to wach those person even if it was only a experiment.
3) She had walked into the experiment late and therefore was more likely to be startled. She was involved in the experiment because she was in a relationship with Zimbardo and not because she was a student or colleague.
4) Paragraph 4
5) Because I did not understand the part about her being a heroin.
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3. True or false (.5 point each; in order of appearance in the text. Do these very carefully!
B, 1) The text suggests that some participants’ main motivation in joining the experiment was not money.
2) False
3) True
4) Paragraph 6
5) I got it wrong because I thought it was the contrary

D, 1) Before stopping the experiment, the experimenters never interfered in it.
2) True
3) False
4) Paragraph 7
5) I did not understand the question at first I thought that experimenters mean the prisoner

E, 1) Maslach was immediately shocked when she walked into the prison.
2) True
3) False
4) Paragraph 9
5) I did not pay attention to the word immediately

G, 1) The Stanford Prison Experiment did not have a strong influence on how prisons function, according to Craig Haney.
2) False
3) True
4) Paragraph 15
5) I did not understand the question at first I did pay attention to the word did not have.

4.
1) This text suggests something that was not so clear in the video we watched: why the guards were so aggressive towards the prisoners. What is the reason?
2) Because they take it very seriously. It was reel life for them not a game or a experiment.
3) Because people become anti-social when we put them in situations where they feel anonymous or they can perceive others in ways that make them less than human.
4) Paragraph 8
5) Because I said it in the way that I thought in not in the way that the text said.
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5.
1) Critical thinking. What conclusion could the researchers make about nature in general by observing their prison experiment in the middle of the night?
2) When something go to far people can act differently. It could be mean or nice, but in this casse the guard where really mean with the prisoner.
3) The guards changed the way they acted when they thought no one was looking.
4) Paragraph 10
5) because I did not write about their behavior when no one is looking.
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6, B)
1) How would you summarize paragraph 9?
2) It the difference about the young man how he change in a small time
3) She saw the two faces of the guard (when he is with the prisoners and with normal people)
4) Paragraph 9
5) I did not have it right because I was to general, and it was not in a small time but with people
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8.
1) Without using any of the author’s words, explain completely how politicians exploit prisons.
2) The guard are mean with the prisoner but the prisoner are not good guy so they diserve it but in that experience the boy where all egal so it was not fair for the prisoner
3) Politicians use prisons to create a image
4) Paragraph 14
5) I did not get the question. And I thought the question would not be in the text.
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