# PTE Listening MCM #2: Academic Profile of a...

Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #2 - Level 1 - Feeds Listening

> Listen to the recording and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

Which of the following statements about Professor Zimbardo are correct?

- He hosts a program called Discovering Psychology on PBS-TV.
- He first began studying psychology in 1968.
- He began his career at Stanford University.
- He conducts research into a wide and disparate range of subjects.
- He has written more than 300 books during his career.
- He is a widely respected writer on intelligence testing.

## Answer

- He hosts a program called Discovering Psychology on PBS-TV.
- He conducts research into a wide and disparate range of subjects.

## Explanation

The correct statements align with the speaker's description of the professor's media contributions and the breadth of his academic research.

What to watch: You hear about "his widely seen PBS TV series Discovering Psychology" and research on "everything interesting," from shyness to terrorism. The 300 books option is tempting, but he wrote 300 articles and chapters and 50 books.

## Hints

- Focus on the specific media project mentioned in the audio.
- Listen carefully to the scope of the professor's research interests mentioned by the speaker.

## Transcript

Could you please make welcome our guest lecturer today, Philip G. Zimbardo. Professor Zimbardo is an emeritus professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1968. After earlier teaching at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University, he also continues to teach at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Professor Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the voice and face of contemporary psychology through his widely seen PBS TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, the Stanford Prison Experiment. His current research interests are in the domain of experimental social psychology, with a scattered emphasis on everything interesting to study, from shyness to time perspective, persuasion, cults, madness, violence, vandalism, political psychology and terrorism. He has been a prolific, innovative researcher across a number of fields in social and general psychology, with more than 300 professional articles and chapters and 50 books to his credit.

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