Yale University psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ conducted an experiment in 1961 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 following orders from their superiors. Milgram’s experiment‚ which he told his participants was about learning‚ was to have participants (teacher) question
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Altruism: A Field Experiment Kamille J. Bernabe Master in Psychology Polytechnic University of the Philippines Graduate School Advanced Social Psychology Abstract Everyday life is filled with small acts of altruism. While we may be all too familiar with altruism‚ social psychologists are interested in understanding why it occurs. What inspires these acts of kindness? What motivates people to risk their own lives to save a complete stranger? Altruism as defined as the concern
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Gram Stain: The important part of this experiment is being able to determine a bacterium based on its cell wall structure. It also helps indentify if the unknown organism is a Gram positive or Gram negative. This is the initial step that must be taken before any other lab procedure may continue on to ensure the purity is present‚ the arrangement of the cells‚ and the shape the cell has. The staining of the cell starts off with using the primary stain‚ Crystal Violet which is a purple color‚ to begin
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In 1970‚ in small town Riceville‚ Iowa‚ Mrs. Elliot decided to present an experiment she had started previously with a third grade class after the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. Elliot‚ had always presented the topic of racism in her classes‚ as she felt it was important for her students to truly understand what was occurring. The day after the wrongful killing of MLK Jr.‚ she said she wanted to start an experiment with her class because the predominant white male adult newscasters‚ spoke
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bob February 5‚ 2013 Research Methods Stanford Prison Experiment 1. Prisoners were put under a great deal of stress. The prisoners were physiologically and physically harmed. Prisoners were stripped naked‚ chained‚ and was forced to wear bags over their heads. 2. Yes there was voluntary participation in the experiment‚ because all of the participants signed up for the experiment. But the acts committed in the experiment most likely weren’t voluntary‚ meaning that the prisoners did
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Professor Philip Zimbardo‚ leader of the Stanford prison experiment considered three questions before initiating one of the most significant experiments to human phycology. He asked; ‘What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does the situation outside of you come to control your behaviour? Or do the things inside you such as your attitudes‚ your values and your morality etc. allow you to rise above a negative environment? The experiment was intended to last two weeks‚ but was terminated
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“polymer creatures‚” which are the things that are used in experiments about polymers. The polymer creatures‚ made out of two different polymers‚ are both hydrophobic and hydrophilic. This means that while the hydrophilic polymer absorbs water‚ the hydrophobic polymer keeps the shape that the creature was originally in while the water is inside the creature. Another name for this process is osmosis
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Crater Design Experiment Aim: To see how the height in which the ball is dropped from affects the depth of the crater. Hypothesis: I predict that as the height in which the ball is dropped from increases‚ so does the depth of the crater (the data will be directly proportional). The scientific knowledge which supports this is that the golf ball has a gravitational potential energy which increases as the ball is dropped from higher heights. When the height increases the ball gains more gravitational
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The Hawthorne experiments were conducted at the Hawthorne Plant of the Western Electric Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s and involved a variety of different studies of workplace behavior. From sole attention focused on environmental conditions of work in the initial illumination experiment‚ the Hawthorne studies extended to the first relay experiment to investigate effects of working environment‚ physical requirements‚ management‚ and social relations upon output. The subsequent studies
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The stanford prison experiment Assignment #3 Watch the video on the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment available in the Webliography (Quiet Rage http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/quiet-rage-the-stanford-prison-experiment/). In your Threaded Discussion‚ worth 20 pts‚ post your thoughts regarding the following discussion questions excerpted from Zimbardo: 1) Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research
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