Psychology Today Volume 3‚ Episode 5 Submitted: January 18th‚ 2003 First Revision: January 28th‚ 2003 Second Revision: February 3rd‚ 2003 Accepted: February 20th‚ 2004 Publication Date: February 23rd‚ 2003 Does Eating Chocolate Cause Acne? Victor Seo Toronto University ABSTRACT It is often said that eating chocolate will give you acne. To further this idea‚ 400 students from high schools are divided into 4 groups and each group is given different amounts of chocolate daily
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Are you looking for a fun experiment that you can perform for a psychology class? This experiment on gender and memory is relatively quick and easy to perform‚ which is a bonus if you are short on time and resources. Could gender differences play a role in short-term memory? We often hear women complain that their husbands can’t remember important dates like anniversaries or birthdays‚ but could this phenomenon be due to something like memory differences between men and women. Some previous research
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analogue experiment blind design case study confound control group correlation correlational method dependent variable double-blind design epidemiological study A research method in which the experimenter produces abnormal-like behavior in laboratory participants and then conducts experiments on the participants. An experiment in which participants do not know whether they are in the experimental or the control condition. A detailed account of a person’s life and
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Title: An investigation into the impact of group pressure on an individual’s estimate of the amount of beads in a pot (ginger granules in a jar). IV = Group/Individual DV = Individual beads estimate Abstract This experiment investigated the impact of group pressure on the individual. The hypothesis is that group pressure does indeed impact on the individual and in this case the individual’s estimate of the number of ginger granules in a jar. Participants were asked to make a judgement of
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Stage 1 Psychology Investigation - Aggression 975643X (Maddi Sellick) Proposal Our investigation focuses on violence in the media and the affects that it has on viewers that watch it‚ a person’s heart rate can be monitored to see if watching certain films will affect the viewers. We predict that violence in the media does not affect an audience. To support the hypothesis we will conduct an experiment using a sample group of Yr.11 students which attend Westminster school. Three different
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Kyle Park 11th Grade AP Psychology 09/23/14 Design a Psychology Experiment The topic that I chose for my experiment is very intriguing and fascinating because most people own pets while raising children. It would be interesting to find out if these various pets can help children with their academic studies. Pets‚ such as dogs and cats‚ help children with social skills and interactions with society. Children can learn myriad lessons just from being around domesticated animals. I believe that children
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Introduction Milgram Experiment Method 40 men were recruited for a lab experiment investigating “learning”. In exchange for their participation‚ each person was paid $4.50. After the WWII‚ Stanley Milgram a psychologist of Yale University posed a question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? These men were introduced to another participant who were actually actors. These men were given role
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In this experiment we are going to describe stress and prove how can a prolonged exposition to it have a negative impact on memory. The definition of stress used in this experiment is: difficulty one suffers that causes worry‚ emotional tension or loss of concentration. The reason why this topic has been chosen is because stress is a part of nowadays‚ hectic society and it has a very noticeable effect on people’s performance‚ in either work or daily life. The outcome of this experiment could be
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Ross conducted an experiment which was carried out at Stanford university to explore whether children would be likely to copy aggressive behaviour observed from another person which is referred to as a ‘model’ and does the violence that children observe on television‚ movies and video games and “how social learning operates through exposure to a particular behaviour” (investigating psychology page 123) leading them to behave aggressively also what factors would affect the experiment. All the children
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The aim of this experiment was to investigate the role of organization in learning of meaningful words. It was like a memory test‚ through which one could conclude how organization helps in strengthening memory. Memory refers to the processes that are used to acquire ‚ store‚ retain and later retrieve information. There are three major processes involved in memory: Encoding‚ storage and retrieval. Encoding or registration(receiving‚ processing and combining of received information) Storage(creation
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