psychologist‚ and student of Solomon Asch‚ conducted a controversial experiment in 1961‚ investigating obedience to authority. The experiment was held to see if a subject would do something an authority figure tells them‚ even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs and morals. This experiment brought uproar amongst the psychological world and caused the code of ethics to be reviewed and ultimately changed. In the experiment subjects were asked to administer shocks ranging from fifteen volts
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3. Why don’t the terms depolarization and action potential mean the same thing? The terms depolarization and action potential differ because are excitable cells that communicate by transmitting electrical impulses that are capable of producing rapid electrical signals and depolarization in the interior surface of the membrane which becomes less negative and the exterior surface becomes less positive. Additionally‚ when depolarization reaches a certain threshold‚ an action potential is initiated
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Parachute experiment Aim: The aim was to find the effect of holes on a parachute‚ varying their size and number. Hypothesis: 1. By increasing the number of holes‚ the time it will take to the parachute to reach the ground will be longer and its flight will be more balanced. 2. By increasing the size of the hole on the parachute‚ the time it will take to the parachute to reach the ground will be shorter and its flight will be less balanced. Apparatus: - garbage bag (squared shape
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Tuskegee Experiment is one of the unethical Health Researches done in the United States. The way the research was conducted was against people’s civil rights. Totally secretive and without any objectives‚ procedures or guidance from any government agency. During the time that the project was launched there were very few laws that protected the public from medical malpractice or from plainly negligence. Also the Civil Rights act did not pass until the 1960’s. Before the Tuskegee Experiment in 1926
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Environmental Science The Scientific Method Amber Steadham October 31‚ 2012 Abstract: We conducted several experiments using the Scientific Method. We made observations‚ recorded them and used our observations to propose a hypothesis. The experiments included chemical and physical reactions dealing with torn news paper‚ appearance of rock salt crystals‚ the appearance of sand‚ oil and water on plastic‚ and making iodine in water and mineral oil. We found that all these included four physical
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McDonald’s Commercial JDZG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmrTDZy3f2M In this advertisement‚ we see LeBron James coming with a McDonald’s bag to the basketball court. Dwight Howard‚ who is already playing basketball‚ asks him what’s in the bag. Dwight tells him he has a big mac and fries. Dwight asks LeBron to bet his lunch and he agrees to have a slam dunk competition. Dwight won but suddenly Larry Bird appears and takes the McDonald’s bag. This advertisement’s target audience is young
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float. Any object with density more than that will sink. Carbon dioxide‚ or CO2‚ also played a big role in this experiment. Many soft drinks contain CO2. Studies show that Sierra Mist had the most carbonation out of most soft drinks. There was a lot of carbon dioxide in the soda. That was the reason the raisins would float up and down. There were many purposes to this experiment. One purpose was to teach us about density when we saw how the raisins floated to
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in order to survive‚ which‚ consequently‚ begets violence. This is evident in the history of warfare that follows humanity. My interests lie in the psychology of tribalism and how influential it is in modern society. The experiment I wish to conduct on this
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Salt from green beans Name: Ashni Couprie and Dennise Susanto Class: 5c Introduction From previous experiments we ’ve learned that salt is extracted from green beans. To be more specific: salt is extracted from when the beans are cooked in water in which salt has been dissolved. This experiment is based upon the osmoses theory. According to this theory the cell walls of the green beans are what we call a semi permeable membrane. This membrane only lets water through and not the substance
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The Bobo Experiment was performed in 1961 by Albert Bandura to try and prove that people‚ especially children‚ learn their social skills and behaviors from copying or mimicking adults in their lives rather than through heredity genes. Bandura wanted to show‚ by using aggressive and non-aggressive adult-actors‚ that a child would be apt to replicate and learn from the behavior of a trusted adult (Shuttleworth‚ M. 2008). These issues have been present for many years‚ even before the media used these
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