While the experiment was indeed fascinating to watch, several strengths and weaknesses existed in the research. In the beginning of the episode, Adam and Jamie went to Stanford University to look for a suitable measure for pain tolerance. They were introduced to four standard measures of pain, including extreme heat, capsaicin injection, electricity, and cold pressor test by Dr. Chu, who specialize in pain. After testing out themselves, the hosts of the show chose the cold pressor test (Rees, 2010). Thus, the measurement selected for the experiment is reliable, as it is approved by specialist.…
In “The Colombian University “Miracle Study Flawed and Fraud” author Bruce Flamm explains that the study is full of error and was very poorly conducted. The study could have not even taken place. The whole study seems to be full of deception. Not only is the study considered fraud but also even the conductors of the study could be considered dishonest. Lets start with the study as a whole.…
There’s much you can learn through reading about different psychological disorders and concepts. The book “First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple” by Cameron West specifically explains the life of Cameron West living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. I chose this book because of my uncertainty and intrigue about DID and the everyday struggles of multiples. Because this book is based on the actual accounts of Cameron West, I felt I got a better understanding of DID and could really get a feel for the thoughts and feelings of this man through his journey of dealing and coming to terms with his disorder. At the end of the book, I had gone through a whirlwind of emotions from sadness because of Cams past to have developed DID to utter joy that he learned how to accept it and lived a happier life.…
The drug epidemic in America is something that is hard to overlook these days. More and more people are dying from illicit drug overdoses and prescription drug overdoses. Pharmaceutical companies continue to create new drugs for new problems. Illicit drugs continue to be manufactured both internationally and domestically, being sold in every city across the nation. For Americans, medication has become a normal part of life.…
Rick Medlin PHIL 110 10/28/2017 Part I Consider the fallacies discussed on pages 29-40 in Vaughn's text. Consider, also, chapters 1-3 in Campbell's text. 1. In about 100 words, summarize Campbell's first three chapters.…
Author Stephen Mihm wrote an article for the New York Times on April 16th, 2006. Mihm explores the correlations between Omega-3 and behavior, and potentially how Omega-3 can eventually lead to lower murder rates. Mihm talks about researchers, and the different experiments conducted relating to Omega-3 effects on prison inmates. Mihm believes that prison would be the perfect place to test a novel hypothesis. "Most prisons are notorious for the quality of their cuisine (pretty poor) and the behavior of their residents (pretty violent).…
Dreamland Discussion Three The third reading of Dreamland continues to shed light on the ongoing opioid crisis in America, and brings some new methods that the DEA and police used to combat the spread of painkiller and heroin abuse to the forefront. In the first section of the reading, we learned about Dr.Katz and his criticisms of the research on painkillers. I agree with him when he said that the doctors are not being truthful when they market these painkillers.…
Biologically, benzodiazepines bind to GABA receptor sites in the brain. GABA is an important inhibitory neurotransmitter that if in excess amounts in the brain or regulated can cause seizures and sleep problems respectively. Previously, scientists have tried medication substitution to anxiolytics, agonist substitution to mimic the effect, or abstain completely. Liebrenz and his team of five scientists suggest that, “patients’ subjective views are of clinical importance because past research indicates that individuals should be presented with a variety of treatment alternatives, rather than simply being informed about what is obtainable or easiest; in addition, this prior research has found interventions to be most beneficial when patients…
The topic of the book The Human SuperOrganism , by Rodney Dietert, was about your immune system and how it can and is benefited by microbiomes. It talked about how your immune system is faulty like allergies for example that's your immune system going haywire. It also stated major health problems that can be prevented or fixed by microbiomes. It explained what a microbiome it’s the grouping of bacteria in a certain place on your body like your foot has a different biome than your stomach.…
Guadalupe Loza Professor Comstock English -80 28 ctober, 2014 Obedience: Behind of an Unethical True The action of believing on what is right according to reality and its own self; make obedience part of each individual responsibility regardless other people behavior. Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist that conducted in the 1960s one of the most famous studies referring on how people obey or disobey to certain authoritarian instructions. The experiment basically consisted on put in one of the participants to an unclear situation in which they would be required to select either to obey or disobey the instructions given by an authoritative person. The role of the participants were to indicated a set of words to the learner(…
Another example that reality is distorted in both “Beauty and the Geek” and Big Brother” is the fact a camera is on the participants constantly. In the case of “Big Brother,” the cameras were on them 24/7. In sociology the term is called, “The Hawthorne Effect,” which means a person changes their normal behavior to perceive themselves in a positive manner in the outsiders/ other person’s perspective. If people are acting oddly because they are on a TV show, how is it reality? Their literal behavior is changed because they know they are being watched.…
Many patients will be prescribed drugs and they will believe that the drugs will work but the patient does not improve because of the actual chemical components of the drug. An article written in an APA magazine says, “Studies have shown that people with mild depression that take antidepressants, do not do significantly better than using placebos” (Smith36). Often times prescription drugs act as a placebo effect, the chemicals in the drugs are not healing them, but the patient believe that it…
In the article, “My enemy’s enemy is my friend” it talks about a case study done at the University of Texas by two people of the name Elliot Arson and Vernon Cope to test a hypothesis that people will like people who dislike the same person as them, or like someone if they like the same people as them. This runs off of the theory that some people may believe that because they share the liking or disliking of someone that they are similar people with the same values and beliefs, this can be derived from the balance theory. When considered, this hypothesis is easily thought of to be accurate. With this hypothesis, there can be many other hidden factors that can play into these situations.…
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was originally conceived in 1929 by the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) as a method of determining the predominance of syphilis within black communities across America and of identifying a mass treatment.…
it has however been shown that even placebos given openly with an argument that they should be effective might actually work Kaptchuk et al.,…