Science Experiments Essay

Method Participants 19 college students of Florida State College at Jacksonville participated in an anonymous online survey which collected zero demographical information. The students were handed a physical laptop in class and asked to answer the 10 survey questions they saw on the screen. This survey was handed out 5 after Hurricane Matthew passed by the Florida Coast (Hurricane caused a loss internet, power and cellphone service for some parts of the area). Procedure A survey was created…

Social Comparison. The inclusion of social comparison within the TIM stems from social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954). According to Festinger (1954), individuals have an inherent drive to evaluate their opinions and abilities. When objective standards are unavailable, individuals seek out others to make comparisons. The outcome of such comparisons is partially influenced by directionality, that is upward or downward. Upward comparisons are proposed to occur when an individual compares him-…

(ARI). PETA as well as ARI are groups helping to uncover what really happens in these labs. By knowing the experimenting of animals, do not really help in medical advancement, and the risk it is posing on our society, Scientists say that animal experiments are not to show the safety or effectiveness of the drugs on human beings, but they help us to decide whether a particular drug should be tested on…

In the 1930s, Dr. Ingle and his team set up a series of experiments in order to better understand the working relationship between the pituitary and adrenal glands. They hypothesized that the release of cortin from the adrenal cortex was regulated by the anterior lobe of the pituitary. At the time, it was established that treating animals with high doses of cortin caused the adrenal cortex to regress, and that the same effect was also observed when mice were hypophysectomized. Dr. Ingle…

METHOD – 320 -6 = 314 WORDS Rats and Diets 36 Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups of 9 rats with each group fed a different diet. Groups consisted of Corn starch (C), corn starch + naringin (N) (CN), high-carbohydrate high-fat diet (H) and H + N (HN) (Alam, Kauter, & Brown 2013). Rats on H and HN diet were fed a high-carbohydrate high-fat diet consisting of 25% fructose in drinking water and a mixture of beef tallow, condensed milk, powdered rat feed and salt for 16 weeks (Alam,…

In this experiment the students were required to provide urine samples three times in 60 minutes. This experiment was done to test urine volume, flow rate, total dissolved solids, and pH at each interval and record the differences in these variables depending on what each participant was asked to eat or drink. I hypothesized that the subjects asked to eat pretzels and drink soda would see an increase in total dissolved solids in their urine. In this experiment the 20 test subjects had to provide…

Conclusion The hypothesis for how 80’s music would make it harder for the participants to focus was accepted. The data used from the experiment that supports the hypothesis was the different genres of music that each participant listened to, one of the genres of music was 80’s music and the participants that listened to 80’s music had a harder time focusing on the worksheet and got more time for the trials with music than without music. I think the results came out the way they did is because…

Single Case Design Overview Assignment Behavior Research Methods Montiel Cook Design Research Questions Addressed Advantages Disadvantages Demonstration of Experimental Control ABAB Does this intervention work? Will the independent variable alter the dependent variable? Threats to internal validity can be controlled by the researcher with return to baseline. A single participant can demonstrate experimental control within this design. Behaviors should of participant repertoire. Hard to…

I researched many things about my experiment before doing it. This way, I could have a better idea of what to look at while conducting the experiment. I completed background research on baking soda and vinegar, CO2 production from their reaction, base and acidic substances reacting, and stoichiometry of baking soda and vinegar reactions. After doing research, I found many interesting facts and information. First I researched vinegar. It is an alcoholic liquid that has been allowed to sour.…

manual1. We were employed by the Environmental Protection Agency as chemists. Our task is to identify an unknown compound that was found in a nearby landfill. In this laboratory, the unknown compound was given to us by our TA. The main goal of this experiment was to correctly identify the unknown compound. We also wanted to discover as many chemical and physical properties as possible. Physical properties are those that can be determined without performing any changes to the identity of the…