Stanley Milgram: ’electric shock’ experiments (1963) - also showed the power of the situation in influencing behaviour. 65% of people could be easily induced into giving a stranger an electric shock of 450V (enough to kill someone). 100% of people could be influenced into giving a 275V shock. The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram (1963) Experiment: Focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Investigate: Whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority
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Design of a Psychological Experiment Psyc 100 (0110-0129) Fall‚ 1996 Dr. Sternheim Report #1 (10 points) Problem: Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a student’s ability to hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the following questions: 1) What are the independent and dependent variables? The independent variable
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------------------------------------------------- Griffith’s experiment Griffith’s experiment discovering the "transforming principle" in pneumococcus bacteria. Griffith’s experiment‚ reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith‚[1] was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation.[2][3] Griffith used two strains of pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) bacteria which infect mice – a type III-S (smooth)
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Part I - Illumination Experiments (1924-27) These experiments were performed to find out the effect of different levels of illumination (lighting) on productivity of labour. The brightness of the light was increased and decreased to find out the effect on the productivity of the test group. Surprisingly‚ the productivity increased even when the level of illumination was decreased. It was concluded that factors other than light were also important. Part II - Relay Assembly Test Room Study (1927-1929)
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The Holy experiment William Penn holy experiment is to create a colony on the principle of self-government‚ religious toleration‚ and brotherly love. William Penn make a government which can run with the law of the people. Pennsylvania first constitution organized the government into three parts: the governor‚ the seventy two member of provisional council‚ and general assembly with two hundred member. While the proprietor held his office by hereditary‚ the council and assembly were elected by the
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The song “Dollhouse” (by Melanie Martinez) depicts a dysfunctional family trying to portray themselves as the perfect family. In the beginning of the song‚ a girl is playing with her dolls in her dollhouse. Everything appears to be normal‚ but as she turns away the dolls come to life and reveal their true identity. The song labels the family of four individually with the narrator being the daughter. The first member of the family described is the mother. She is a raging alcoholic who is self-medicating
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Title Antimicrobial properties in different type of plants. Introduction A substance that kills or prevents the growth of microorganisms for example bacteria‚ fungi or protozoans is called an antimicrobial. This substance has 2 major roles which are to either kill microbes (microbiocidal) or prevent the growth of microbes (microbiostatic). Disinfectants are antimicrobial substances used on non-living objects outside the body. This substance included antibiotics‚ antifungals‚ antiprotozoals and
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This part of the experiment yielded an exothermic reaction. The purpose was to calculate the specific heat capacity and molar mass of the zinc metal. The specific heat capacity was found to be 0.197 J/g °C with a percent error of -49.5%. The molar mass was found to be 127 g/mol with a percent error of 94.2%. Possible sources of error inherent to this segment of the experiment were the fact that when the temperature of the solution was being measured
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"A Young Woman’s Suicide" "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy and "Suicide Note" written by Janice Mirikitani are both poems about the story of a young woman’s reasons for committing suicide. Both explain that their suicides were influenced by their feelings of not being ’perfect’‚ rather or that the people around them did not think they were ’perfect’ or ’good enough’. Though the tone‚ language‚ as well as the story written in the poems are different they both share the theme of a young woman’s conflict
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project sponsors? 5. If Harris is forced to recommend only one project over the other‚ which should she recommend? Why? Study Guide for New Heritage Doll The company has two project proposals: Match My Doll Clothing expansion (MMDC) and Design Your Own Doll (DYOD) initiative. The case analyzes various investment criteria for New Heritage Doll. We will start with NPV‚ and then move on to other criteria. 2 A. NPV for MMDC We start by focusing on MMDC. In order to compute NPV for MMDC‚ we
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