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    The Effects of Recall and Recognition in Different Experiments The purpose of this study was to determine recall and recognition amongst different types of people. The differentiation between these people included age, gender, timing, and many other characteristics that may or may not affect the memory of a person or persons. Recall is simply defined as bringing a thought or idea that has been learned previously back to the remembrance of a person. Recognition is being able to recognize what…

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    The doctors said she would be safe. This was the thought of many children and families across America and Europe in the 20th century. Scientist always had a reason to do what they did, whether it was unethical or not. They performed scientific experiments on children, women, men, and people of all races like African-Americans and Jews. As experiments became a frowned upon subject, scientists and researchers covered up their inhumane experiments by deceiving innocent people, which also dealt and…

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    Elodea Lab Report

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    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.…

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    all of his experiments viewing each one and figuring out what going on. As we go back to the point on how Skinner was a person that not only saw evil he was viewed as someone who did not care for others. He was a person who sat down and just ruined lots of things. There was evidence to prove otherwise. Just like there was no evidence to prove that he was a bad man. He was not only helping more than just himself throughout the years he was helping the entire country with some of experiments. As…

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    questions” (Primo Levi). There are common people every day who experiment; however, experiments turn evil when they prove genocidal to races. Throughout history, there have been events which most would like to change or forget; likewise, there are events which are repeated, even though the event could be catastrophic in proportions, such as the scientific “experiments” conducted by the Nazi Germany’s Holocaust and The United States’ experiments after 1940. Though the countries are different,…

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    involvement in the infamous Guatemala Syphilis experiment. It was an American research project aimed to test the capabilities of penicillin and how it could treat or affect an array of STDs. Guatemalans were intentionally infected with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid without their knowledge or consent. The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment is considered one of the darker episodes in medical history, even by the context of the era. The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment was justifiable by no means. All…

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    The Birthmark Essay

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    during the chemical process. For something trivial as in trying to remove a birthmark, it can unexpectedly create advancements in science. Aylmer’s experiment does go too far with the scientific boundaries, but he creates an opportunity to learn from mistakes made in his experiments. Aylmer’s experiments can be justified if his wife survived the experiment. To paraphrase Aylmer’s actions throughout the story, he detects “a healthy delicate bloom… a tint of deeper crimson,…

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    Stanley Milgram's Analysis

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    In 1963, an experiment was conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, who studied the conflict with obedience, authority, and the conscience of a human being. In the experiment, Milgram designed a false scenario, in which one person would volunteer to be the “teacher” and the other person would be the “student” (who would be the actor). The teacher would read a list of word pairs and test the student’s memory. Afterwards, the teacher would say the first word of the word pair and the student…

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    This is a between subjects experiment because the participants were different in each condition. For the procedure in each experiment, there were three phases. The experiment began with the study phase. The study phase started by the children being told that they are going to be told something about a boy/girl or about boys/girls. But in the second experiment they would say a cat/dog or cats/dogs or in the third they would say the eight different…

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    What I have found about this experiment is some really interesting ideas and other ways to the experiment. Some other people use Sodium or other words, for Sodium on the periodic table this chemical is called “Na” other people use that to make the Elephant Toothpaste. The call it Elephant Toothpaste because it’s supposed to look like toothpaste and since it's so big and it looks like toothpaste so the first thing people thought of was Elephant Toothpaste. Is that it was so deadly and that it…

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