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Unit Five A Friend in Need A. Spot Dictation Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the missing words you hear in the spaces. Human Nature In May, 2004 the world was 1) _____________ of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad. Lurid photographs and reports caused us to wonder how otherwise 2)____________________ could commit such abuses. The question is not new. An experiment conducted by psychologist Phil Zimbardo at Stanford University in the early 1970s 3) _________________________ in a simulated prison environment. Volunteer participants were 4) _____________ into prisoners and guards. The prisoners were held in a makeshift prison and guards were told to maintain order as they saw fit. It took only one day for the guards to 5)__________________________. After a brief rebellion, the prisoners were punished by 6) ________________________. The guards also 7)________________ with a fire extinguisher and threatened sexual abuse. The situation got so out of hand that after only six days the two-week long experiment was aborted. Based on the experiment and others like it, Zimbardo and other psychologists concluded that in the right context anyone can do things that they would 8) ________________. During the Holocaust, for example, Nazi doctors who were known to be good husbands and fathers thought nothing of torturing and killing concentration camp prisoners. But as Zimbardo showed, the 9) _______ for brutal behavior is not limited to Nazis or other criminals. So while the incidents at Abu Ghraib are certainly disturbing, they are (10)_____________. If the Stanford experiment and others like it are any indication, what happened at Abu Ghraib was not abnormal. Unfortunately, it was an example of human nature at its very worst. Key: shocked by the abuse law-abiding, well-trained soldiers explored the behavior of psychologically healthy people randomly divided begin abusing their authority. being forced to do push ups and other physically d