terrible things are showing their true form. These were some of the reasons behind the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments. These experiments were to test people’s obedience to authority - or a man in a lab coat. Milgram’s experiment was the first of its kind‚ seeing as how similar experiments were repeated afterward‚ and he wanted to prove that authority was a major part in why people listened to others. This experiment was started after a german soldier claimed he shouldn’t be prosecuted for torturing
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Surface Tension Steven Brignol Dr. Payne September 15 Introduction: Water’s ability to stick to itself is surface tension. In this lab we were able to measure and detect surface tension by dropping water‚ drop by drop‚ onto a penny. The quantity of droplets that fit on the penny was impressive. Hypothesis: The detergent will thicken the water making a tighter surface tension. Prediction: If soap increased the surface tension‚ then expansion will happen. Materials: (1) Pipette (2) Water
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the experiment‚ the observational study and the survey. An experiment is a scientific method in which data are collected to be tested to prove a hypothesis using either independent variables in a closed environment or dependent variables in an opened environment. There are two types of experiment‚ the laboratory experiment that is as its name suggests conducted in laboratory and the field experiment conducted in a natural environment. The advocates of positivism support the use of experiment due
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There were 3 main experiments that were conducted in the 19th century. The first experiment was conducted in 1928 by Frederick Griffiths. He was able to establish that there is a substance being transmitted from one generation to another. For this experiment Griffiths used two types of pneumococcus bacteria (the bacteria that is responsible for causing pneumonia). He used the smooth strain (S) which had an outer capsule that acts as a protective shield from the host’s immune system and rough strain
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ME 304 – Experimental Engineering Spring 2013 Lab Report Experiment # 3 Bending of Beams Section # ThTh12 Group # 1 Ömer Ege Çalışkan Serhat Karakuz Noyan Uğur Renda Turgut Soydan 20.03.2013 Abstract In this experiment‚ a simply supported beam is used and the variations of deflection of a simply supported beam with load‚ beam thickness and material are investigated. It is found that the deflection of the beam changes linearly with the load and as the beam
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The Stanford prison experiment was organized by three psychologists from Stanford University with a purpose is to observe the behavior between guards and prisoners in a simulated environment‚ and whether or not a prison environment aided in rehabilitating inmates‚ or increased the possibility of violent behavior. Formal hypotheses were developed describing that an assignment to either role of prisoner or guard would result in significantly different reactions on behavioral measures of interaction
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BSummary of Brain Asymmetry Introduction In the Brain Asymmetry experiment‚ the independent variable is the construction of the chimeric faces: one has the younger face on the left and the other has the younger face on the right. The dependent variable is the percentage of reports that chimeric face with the younger face on the left looked younger. The group of left-handed subects acted as a control group and helped to rule out the general left-view bias. It is hypothesized that percentage of reports
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The Stanford Prison experiment drew the attention of how adapting to a situation can make a person become someone else‚ leaving behind who they previously were. Social Psychologist‚ Philip G. Zimbardo‚ highlighted the presentation of classic psychological research on situational forces on human behaviour. Zimbardo debated that the situation is the core in creating individuals to act in ways they would have not acted before. The extent to how situational forces can explain evil acts by the individuals
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A lab experiment is a method of research that enables the researcher to control the environment. It is a way of doing a research in a controlled environment on a certain behaviour which will have a cause and effect. It is done in a controlled environment so that extraneous variables are prevented from affecting the results. Behaviourists use lab experiments because they are interested in a cause and effect of certain behaviours. The aim is to control all relevant variables except for one key variable
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The Elvis Experiment Introduction: In this experiment we will determine how the difference in length and diameter of a blood vessel have an effect on the resistance of blood flow and how the viscosity of blood will also effect the resistance of blood flow in a blood vessel. Observation: My mom is a big Elvis fan and she always wondered how his health affected his death. Knowing that he had high cholesterol and high blood pressure I decided to do an experiment on what factors may have had an effect
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