Examine the problems some sociologists may face when using experiments in their research. (20 marks) (January 2009) MODEL ANSWER Experiments are the preferred scientific method. There are two main types of experiments. The classic scientific experiment takes place in a laboratory in controlled conditions. By contrast field experiments take place in more natural but less controlled experiments. Although experiments are very successful in science they are rarely used in Sociology for the following
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Abstract The aim of my research was to study automatic processes by replicating the previously carried out Stroop effect. The participants‚ 20 Richmond College students (10 boys and 10 girls) chosen by an opportunistic sample were taken into a quiet room separately‚ were presented with 6 lists of words‚ out of which 3 were congruent and the other 3 incongruent and the time taken for each participant to name the colour that the words were written in was measured and recorded. From
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THE EXPERIMENTS Joseph Mengele was very interested in genetics‚ particularly in twins. He carried out various experiments and tests‚ which were brutal and absolutely ferocious. They shock me so much‚ I find it so hard to believe a man was capable of such ghastly‚ cruel and barbaric actions. Some people still live today‚ to tell the horrific‚ terrifying stories of Mengele… who have experienced his cruelty first hand. Below are some true stories I have heard about through documentaries I have studied
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The Stanley Milgram experiment takes normal everyday people and gives them orders to do horrible things. The test is to see if someone would do an awful act just on the basis of someone telling them to. This experiment speaks to the ’nature of responsibility’ and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher‚ and the other person in the room‚ an actor‚ is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series
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Experiment 1: Synthesis of Copper Compounds Introduction This experiment involves the synthesis of compounds originating from pure solid copper. By applying solubility rules and the reactive properties of substances‚ many compounds which would otherwise be costly to extract from nature are able to be synthesized in the laboratory. Laboratory synthesized may sometimes be more economical than natural extraction‚ however it poses its own problems with the amount of substance that is actually yielded
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Experiment 5 Polytropic Expansion of Air Object The object of this experiment is to find the relation between pressure and volume for the expansion of air in a pressure vessel – this expansion is a thermodynamic process. Introduction The expansion or compression of a gas can be described by the polytropic relation ‚ where p is pressure‚ v is specific volume‚ c is a constant and the exponent n depends on the thermodynamic process. In our experiment compressed air in a steel
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Summary The Stanford Prison was an experiment to study the psychological effects and reactions of students pretending to be prisoners and guards. This study was conducted in 1971 and although it was suppose to have duration of 2 weeks‚ it finished after just 6 days. The experiment required 24 male students for the role-play and paid $15‚00 per day. Several volunteers answered to an ad on a newspaper and were selected after being interviewed. They were all healthy and there were no psychological
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n this study‚ the Stroop effect experiment will be carried out on matching and mismatching test. The Stroop effect experiment was named after Ridely Stroop‚ published in 1935‚ and the purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate the difference in reaction time of reading the name of the coloured words and naming the ink of the colour. Not only does it record the reaction time‚ but it also aims to measure individuals focused attention‚ learning and memory (Stroop‚ 1935). However‚ when reading through
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Josef Mengele was the most well known doctor during the Holocaust because of all the inhumane human experiments he performed. As a doctor at Auschwitz‚ he was ranked as a chief officer. As a doctor‚ he conducted many experiments. These experiments lead to his fascination with twins‚ how the body reacts to sterilization‚ and how the body reacts in freezing cold weather. Josef Mengele was born on March 16‚ 1911 in Gunzburg‚ Germany and died February 7‚ 1979 in Bertioga‚ Brazil at the age of 67
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Results: The following Tables were conducted to be results of the stomata density experiment. Table1 showing the stomata count of 50 Non-Light Leaves of the Avocado tree: L1- 35 L11- 37 L21- 46 L31- 33 L41- 45 L2- 34 L12- 42 L22- 32 L32- 40 L42- 60 L3- 50 L13- 48 L23- 57 L33- 42 L43- 70 L4-
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