smallest zone of inhibition as it was the cheapest. The sponges results were also interesting as there was no clearly seen zone of inhibitions that were noticeable enough to be able to measure. Discussion The results that were gained from this experiment refute the hypothesis. It refute the hypothesis as the most expensive detergent (morning fresh) did not have the largest zone of inhibition. Evaluate interesting aspects of
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In "Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment"‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Dr. Heidegger invited four of his elderly friends to his eerie study and asked them to help him in an experiment. He explained the experiment with an old‚ withered rose which he took from his magic black folio. He took the rose which he claimed was given to him fity five years ago by his now deceased fiance‚ and dropped it into a vase with water from the fountain of youth. His guests watched the rose turn back into a freshly-bloomed
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Stanford Prison Experiment‚ Philip Zimbardo states people change with they are given “power without oversight” (Zimbardo‚ The Psychology of Evil‚ TedTalk). Though the students were considered “good apples‚” the combination of situation and the system caused the guards to lose their identities and to abuse their power in inhumane ways. The results of the experiment were derived many observations and conclusions about the subjects; however‚ Zimbardo’s switch between running the experiment
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The Stanford Prison experiment‚ in my opinion is a remarkable experiment . It isn’t ethical in the least but the results that have emerged have exceeded even what Mr.Zimbardo set out to do. The aim of seeing whether people change their basic personalities ‚ moralities ‚ values when subjected to an external hostile environment has been successfully proven. My honest opinion is that ‚ at that time in 1971 ‚ it was rational enough to think about going out of the way to get an answer to a particular
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IB Psychology (HL) Krissy Gear Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience P. 3 July 1961‚ Yale University Psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test peoples’ obedience to authority figures. He wanted to see how many people would comply or resist commands by (an idea of) an authority figure. Milgram’s experiment began with two men about twenty to fifty years in age. The participants volunteered through an advertisement and a promise of $4.50 for their
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Serious Questions about the Stanford Prison Experiment July 15‚ 2008 The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) by Phil Zimbardo has been for me an example of the astonishing things that we humans are capable of. I guess as an example of human gullibility‚ I had not been skeptical about the experiment‚ which lacks quite a few scientific markers (aside from its ethical problems). During a talk by Barbara Oakley‚ she was asked to comment about the SPE because it showed the influence the situation and roles
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Essay on the “Little Albert Experiment” Clarence Losey South University Online Essay on the “Little Albert Experiment” Classical Conditioning is a form of behavioral learning in which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the power to elicit the same innate reflex produced by another Stimulus (Jonson‚ Zimbardo & McCann‚ 2009‚ p.95). By pairing the banging bar and the white rat‚ Watson and Rayner were able to use classical conditioning by hitting the bar at the same time Albert touched
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was a fundamentally unethical research project that began in 1932 and lasted 40 years ("U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee"). In the study‚ about 600 black men were told that they were being treated for “bad blood‚” a colloquial term for syphilis (“U.S. Public Health”). In reality‚ the men were not being given any treatment and were merely acting as test subjects so that researchers from the U.S. Public Health Service could study the disease (“The
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Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiment One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just
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Is it fair to deceive humans in an unethical psychological experiment in order to receive new information? This is a question that I believe needs to be asked when one thinks of the Milgram experiment‚ a psychological study set up in the U.S in 1965. American psychologist Stanley Milgram held an experiment in order to see how severely ordinary human beings could knowingly cause harm to another human. This idea came about when he studied the holocaust in Germany in WWII‚ and then in the Nuremberg
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