Philadelphia Experiment

When a scientist decides to test the limits of the human condition, the ethicality and basis of the experiment are called into question. The main character and scientist Aylmer from the short story “The Birthmark” has such questions directed against him by the readers and modern societies. The question of whether or not his methods were ethical relies in the compliance of his subject of experimentation, his wife Georgiana, and in this case his subject agrees to whatever methods he deems…

A massive, destructive, yellow-eyed creature takes its first breath. A man with almost no knowledge becomes much smarter than the average human over the course of a few weeks. These are the results of the human conducted experiments done in “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. These two stories follow characters that alter nature with their experimentations. Victor Frankenstein from Frankenstein animates an inanimate object that he creates using human cadavers…

Method Participants Participants will be 90 undergraduate students from a Northeastern university. There will be 45 men and 45 women, between the 18-25 years of age. The experimenter will ask students on the university campus if they would participate in a study on music preferences. The participants will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions involving different aspects of prosocial music. There will be 30 participants in each condition. Materials The song Help! by the Beatles will…

In The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean explains chemistry broadly yet detailed through interesting and thrilling stories. He talks about the elements on the periodic table and how the table came into existence and why it is arranged the way it is. He also looks deeply into the history and concepts of some interesting elements. In chapter 15 called “An Element of Madness,” he goes into an explanation about selenium, manganese, palladium, barium, and unununium. Pathological science is considered…

Medical Research vs Animal Testing The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel but also ineffective. Animal research is a serious action against innocent animals. "Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and killing by carbon dioxide…

different problems. The horse would choose the answer for the owner’s problem or could not answer the computation problem at all. When scientists have two theories that appear to be equally possible, the parsimony principle is used. This principle encourages scientists to choose the simpler theory with fewer conceptual relationships to be preferred. In addition, scientists have learned to look for facilitated communication cues as was the case in an autism studies by Faith in 1989 and 1993…

I hypothesized that segment one, the part containing the head and mouth, would be the most susceptible to such stimulation. The results of my experiment support my hypothesis. The reason why segment one is the most sensitive is because earthworms don’t have eyes so they need to use mechano and photoreceptors to perceive light and touch this is known as dermal light sensitivity. Dermal sensitivity…

when a live animal undergoes a test or experiment for research purposes. Some common animals that are affected or used in animal testing are rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and, cats. I was familiar with animal testing, but not all the animals affected by it. Most cases claim to be mild but can and have shown to have caused the animal's pain and suffering, most animals end up being killed after being experimented on or even reused on different tests and experiments. In order to protect our…

Imagine you were thrown in a cage, or beaten up for no real reason at all, or even being forced to do something you do not want to do, only to entertain others. This is how millions of animals are being treated today. It is unacceptable for people to do this to other living creatures, and it should be stopped. Over a million animals are abused and killed every year despite the fact that animal cruelty is a felony which can result in jail time of over 15 years and a $500,000 fine. This type…

Psychologists are interested in studying memory illusions and distortions in order to discover how the memory works (Bartlett, 1932; Schacter, 2001). An interest in false memories arose in the 1900s, and led to people trying to discover if suggested influences can lead to remembering pseudo-events. A procedure was introduced where adults were given a description of a childhood event, and asked to remember them (Loftus and Pickrell, 1995). All of the events described would be true except for one.…