Agricultural experiment station

torture, and isolation for research purposes? We have been doing that to living things for countless years, except not to humans, but to animals instead. We torment animals using unethical experiments, with little to no success. In the USA, billions of dollars is spent every year to fund these horrendous experiments. The National Institute of Health (NIH) supports this cruelty, and funds about 40% of its annual budget as well. But should experimenting on animals be allowed? Definitely not. The…

One of the many questions posed by those searching for answers on Just Noticeable Difference was if JND could be a suitable as a unit of measure. Analyzing data from two prior experiments, where participants were to discriminate different colors when shown different brightness intervals and applying it to sound also. Once all the data was analyzed, the researchers determined that JND could not be used as a unit of measure (Newman, 1933). Although JND could not be used as a unit of measurement,…

Experiments allow researchers to intervene and change behavior. Experiments also allow researchers to examine more than two variables at a time. Correlation studies, on the other hand, allow researchers to observe patterns that are not manipulated as they are in experiments. Correlations studies also only allow two variables to be observed at one time so that “the direction and strength for the association between the two variables” (Noba, 2014, p. 37) can be determined. As stated above,…

In our study, we had two controls that we placed the Lumbriculus variegatus into. First, we used spring water to get the normal heart rate of the worms. The other control was a caffeine solution that served as our positive control. Our other solutions that we exposed the worms to consisted of increasing concentrations of two different NSAIDs (ibuprofen and aspirin). For each NSAID, we had a solution equivalent to the recommended dosage for a person based on body weight (the proportional dosage…

This semester in Experimental psychology: Learning and Behaviors we started lab by learning to understand the responsibilities on how to use animals in a laboratory setting. We had to pass a test regarding the ethics of the treatment of animals. These ethics involved the institution, state, and federal regulations. Once we finished this process we received 15 Syrian male hamsters that were only 22 days old. We got split into a group of two, and got to care for one hamster per group. Each group…

this experiment, the theoretical yield was calculated. From the results, the limiting reagent is 3-nitrobenzaldehyde. The theoretical yield is determined by referring to the moles of the limiting reagent, which was calculated to be 1.3 g. However, the results obtained (Data Table 1) were greater than the theoretical yield; that is, the actual mass of the product was higher than the theoretical mass. This lead to an abnormally high yield of 320% and an impure product. Though the experiment was…

International compared a variety of animal tests with their in vitro counterparts and found animal tests were less accurate and more expensive in every scenario tested.” This is significant because it shows that there are so many other alternate experiments. An interesting fact; 95% of animals used in testing are not covered by the Animal Welfare Act which excludes the experimentation of birds, mice and rats. Which is ridiculous because people aren’t rats. They won’t react the same way to…

be attracted to moist environments. From surveying other experiments and reports on roly poly behavior, a hypothesis was developed that stated roly polys will migrate to moist surroundings because it will accommodate their gills that help them breathe. Normally, roly polys can be found burrowing in places that retain moisture ( Holland, 2014), which also reinforces this hypothesis. Materials and Methods To begin the roly poly experiment on how moisture affects their behavior, a dissecting…

Animal experiments are universally used in the world nowadays. Most medicines and cosmetic products, if not all, will go through some animal testing procedures before launching to the market. However, some people argue that it is morally wrong to neglect the rights of the animals, while others believe it can beneficial to human. This controversial issue has raised people’s awareness to animal humanity. Both sides are supported by valid evidence. Animal experiments, also known as animal testing…

collected from animals explain useful information for human conditions. People against animal experimentation consider it immoral and strongly believe that there should be an end to it. In addition, they believe that the techniques used during the experiments, for furthering knowledge, are inhumane. They also believe that an animal deserves as much rights as humans do; the right to live a full free life with no suffering,…