Stanely Milgram was a social phycologist who conducted an experiment in 1963 about nonviolent people being capable of hurting others due to obeying the authority under pressure despite their feeling of remorse. The way the experiment received progression was by having people play the role of a teacher and a learner. The teacher obeys the authority and the learner had to memorize a certain amount of words. If the learner failed to the duty, he would received a punishment of a dose of high voltage shock. Although the purpose of the experiment was to test how the learner was capable of learning, it to was to test the capability of the teacher to continue the experiment whether or not they felt guilt.…
In this experiment we were trying to find out what liquid the gummy bears will grow the most in. Our hypothesis was the gummy bear in orange juice would grow bigger in length and in width. Our data did support our hypothesis because the gummy bear did grow the biggest in length and width in the orange juice. We observed the red cherry flavored gummy bears for two days. The orange juice gummy bear kept its bear shape, but colored the orange juice more yellow than orange.…
Rifles Rifles replaced muskets in battle. It has a longer range(about 1,000 yards) and it is more accurate than a musket. The Union and Confederacy both used rifles in battle. Some of the rifles they used were the Spencer carbine (a rifle that could fire multiple times before reloading) and the Smith carbine(not used as much after the invention of the Spencer carbine and the Shapes rifle).…
Cyrus McCormick, also known as “The Father of Modern Agriculture”, is one of the most influential agricultural leaders in America. His invention, the mechanical reaper, not only changed the way farmers could harvest crops but it also improved their techniques tremendously. Furthermore, farmers did not need as many employees to work on their farm as they did before the mechanical reaper, resulting in the farmer paying less for farm hands and also more crops being produced by the machine faster. Farmer’s profits increased which made their businesses rise in value.…
Stanley Milgram Experiment- The Stanley Milgram Experiment was supposed to test people's obedience to authority figures. Random test subjects were brought in to a room, and were told to administer an electric shock to another person after the person gave an incorrect answer. Very few people stopped the experiment before reaching a lethal level of electric shock. In fact, over half of all subjects brought into the experiment administered the shocks up to a lethal level.…
Some read the ‘Cliff Notes’ versions while only a few honestly completed this assignment and read the entirety of the book. By the end of 6 weeks, the author finds that the students had become lazy and lethargic. She observes that no one joins in the class discussions and conversations with the vigor and passion that they first did at the start of the experiment. She carries on the class discussions by herself, without any response from her audience. She finds that in the absence of the grading system, students have started slacking, have become more relaxed and did not work hard enough.…
Background: False confessions are a major issue in our criminal justice system. Organizations like the Innocence Project have shown that 20% of the people they exonerate falsely confessed. Because of that, Russano, Meissner, Narchet and Kassin strived to identify what factors and circumstances increase the likelihood of a false confession. Through Kassin and McNall research, maximization and minimization were categorized as interrogation methods (1991). Russano, Meissner, Narchet and Kassin have decided to study both minimization and how deal making affects false confessions.…
Even though many people refer to this experiment as the Marshmallow test, the child could choose other foods like a cookie or pretzels. In…
There were about three or four students and they each had a copy of the story, a page with three questions, and a highlighter. The first group of students had to read the story, then they read all of the questions together with Mrs. Neth. After the group read all of the questions, Mrs. Neth read the passage out loud to them and they were able to highlight sentences containing information about the questions. Finally, the group of students answered the questions and found the actual answers in the passage. Mrs. Neth gave tips about what to do because the students were to take the Common Assessment the following week.…
The marshmallow study was a tossup regarding the outcome of the children. What real evidence was produced to make this a true experiment to believe? To state that the children who ate the marshmallow were destined to be unsuccessful I think is a bit far stretched. If anything, the children that decided not to eat the marshmallow practiced self-control and that was to earn the extra marshmallow. Self-control is something the other children lacked, but just like anything it can be strengthened and practiced over time as different lifestyles and activities will challenge them to do so.…
Jekyll anxiously awaited the arrival of Saturday evening for he intended to present himself as both the genial, familiar doctor and the smaller, younger stranger. If things went wrong concerning the draught and it failed, or the results were delayed, or the effects could not be reversed... which such risks in mind did he resolve to perform a test prior to the eve’s commencement. He laid a child-sized suit upon his mattress and arranged a group of flasks and other equipment in a semicircular fashion upon the nightstand. “Now,” he uttered, having shut the door, “is the moment to prove to myself the merit of this experiment.” Firm in his resolution, Jekyll poured a few centilitres of the green liquid into a graduated flask, added a scoop of salt,…
The article that I read was “The Visual Cliff,” by Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk. Based on what I read in the article, the intent of the paper was to investigate depth perception in babies, and in animals. The authors thought that a child would have common sense if they are places on a piece of glass that would have a depth to it, they would be able to notice the depth that is created. The hypothesis of this was to see if children and animals know depth perception. Depth perception can be described on how someone determines the distance of an area.…
On the first day of the experiment she made the brown eyed students wear collars to distinguish them between as brown and blue eyed. Furthermore, on the second day she switched the collars so that the blue eyed would wear the collars instead of the brown eyed. She told the superior group that they were not allowed to talk to the inferior group, did not have to drink out of a cup rather than the fountain and had extra…
In one of their experiments, children started to believe that someone licked their knees, and stuck marbles in their ears even though it never seemed to happen. Children could also be persuaded that someone had done bad things even though they didn’t. One of their experiments was called “Sam Stone”. The “Sam Stone” experiment was where someone pretended to be Sam Stone, who was a friend of the teacher. There were two groups, and the second group heard from the first group that Sam Smith was clumsy and broke things constantly.…
Have you ever wondered how many people have temptations to get things right away? For example a four year old has been tested with the marshmallow experiment. They have a choice of getting one marshmallow at that moment or to get two marshmallows if the kid could wait fifteen minutes until Mischel comes back into the room. Most of the kids had a struggle on waiting for fifteen minutes because the marshmallow was right in front of them so they kept looking at it and some kids who wanted to wait would kick the desk,the girls would pull on her pigtails, or they would cover their eyes. There are also some adult and young teens or even kids who may have other temptations for example shopping.…