Social Influence Practice Test

Generalizability is the key idea here. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment used only male undergraduates, so the findings about how people adopt roles and respond to authority may not apply to women or to more diverse groups. This lack of gender diversity is a common limitation cited as a criticism because it restricts who the results can reasonably be generalized to. The other options don’t reflect the main, widely discussed flaw: for example, concerns about external validity aren’t typically framed as “it had external validity,” the study’s duration isn’t the central critique (it lasted about six days), and the issue isn’t primarily about whether it measured obedience rather than conformity.