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The results from the experiment generally show the trials with full light intensity to have produced more oxygen, showing the elodea samples to have photosynthesised more than the lower light intensity trials. Trials 1 and 2 were in water bath 1 with full light intensity, whereas Trials 3 and 4 were in water bath 2, with lower light intensity. Experimental error caused the trials with the lower light intensity to be disrupted, and no data was collected for these trials on Day 8 of the experiment…

In a social experiment conducted by Solomon Asch of 1951, Asch studied the impact of how social pressure from the majority can affect a person to conform (McLeod). The experiment consisted of one participant in a group of actors and all were asked to match the test line to a line most similar. In revealing their answers, the participant was asked to answer last out of the group while the actors all purposely answered incorrectly. With over 12 trials of the experiment, nearly 75% of the…

What they found, as per Malcolm Beasley, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, who led the board, was that Schon substituted entire figures from different papers, removed data points that contradicted forecasts, and even mathematical functions in place of real data points. Schon recognizes a significant number of…

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Banaji and Greenwald, seeks to inform readers about how mindbugs and stereotypes influence people’s behaviors both consciously and unconsciously. The authors discuss multiple well-known scientific studies that were designed to reveal people’s in-group preferences and unconscious biases. By discussing multiple kinds of biases and explaining how they can negatively affect others in many different ways, Banaji and Greenwald open up the discussion…

ethical considerations related to research studies at the sociocultural level of analysis about Milgram's obedience study (1963) and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment (1973). They are both famous for their lack of ethical considerations, and I am going to discuss how and why they are lacking the ethical considerations. Let's start discussing the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted…

Because of the severe effects he was suffering from, the researchers had not choice but to let him leave, making him understand that the prison was fabricated for an experiment that he volunteered for. Considering these findings, the conclusion for the Stanford Prison Experiment is that people will gladly conform to the social roles of their specific environment and take on the tendencies of their stereotyped roles (institutional power). This concluding statement supports the hypothesis that the…

Though Clarice is more successful than any of the other men who have met with him before because she is able to open up to him emotionally and gain his trust, Hannibal Lecter’s purpose in this scene is to define the power struggle between man and women and to further the point that Clarice needs the information that only a man can provide in order to advance within her career. Clarice meets with Hannibal Lecter, where he is kept in a prison cell under maximum security, in order to ask him…

purpose of the research described in this article? What is the author(s) hypothesis/hypotheses? The article "A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison" is research report by Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo from Stanford University. The research is called Naval Research. The research is "designed to develop a better understanding of the basic psychological mechanisms underlying human aggression" (A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison). The…

Groupthink is a term made popular by a social psychologist, named Irving Janis, in 1972. Groupthink occurs when a group of people decides based on what the other group members decide instead of each member deciding true to their own opinions or beliefs. The reason that groupthink occurs is that the members of the group feel pressure to agree or to avoid conflict within the group. Groups affected by groupthink often make poor decisions and do not explore the many other alternatives that may be…

(I am side 2: "Military Women in Combat: Why Making It Official Matters") "The Under Cover Parent" by Harlan Coben Coben begins his essay with an explanation of his personal experience and initial thoughts on spyware. In the second paragraph, Coben describes consumer-level spyware, and he explains how it works. Coben appeals to the reader's pathos by pointing out the difference in the level of invasion between the government and your family. He even goes as far as to call parents who survey…