Thought experiment

Ueberwasser and his contribution to psychology with the placebo effect, what is the placebo effect and how it is used in modern medicine and psychology. Although, he is often a forgotten pioneer in psychology, his work in empirical psychology and thoughts…

The subject of an experiment cries out, “I can’t stand it. I’m not going to kill that man in there” (Milgram 120), as the experimenter compels his subject to administer deadly electrical shocks to another man. The subject clearly expresses his moral objections to these instructions, yet to influence his subject, the insistent experimenter does not lock the door, nor does he hold the subject at knifepoint- he only requests that the subject “Continue, please” (121). And so the subject continues.…

Braverman was interviewed to see what the experiment was about, and how he believed himself to have handled the situation and he said “[w]hat appalled me was that I could possess the capacity for obedience and compliance to a central idea” (Milgram 84) which goes to show that under the influence of…

flows.” (Klazema). If we are sensitive to shots, who says they are not? These products are still being developed and if the product happens to be dangerous, the animals will be the first to tell. They are put through all the pain of the failed experiments. The intentions of animal testing is not to harm the animals, but that is exactly what it does…

Many of the experiments that established the foundation of psychology have been found to contain weak inductive inferences that do not represent humanity as a whole. Along with these founding experiments, many recent experiments continue to contain weak inductive inferences as well. This is not an effective way to continue to develop the foundation of psychology. I will argue that the recent experimental work of Audrey Parrish is invalid because of its weak inductive inferences. An inductive…

Aim: The BBC prison experiment was a study that tested the psychological effect of people being placed in an environment where there was inequality in terms of power, status and resources. As stated by Haslam and Reicher, they “were trying to investigate the factors (e.g., social identification, permeability, cognitive alternatives) that determine when people act as group members and how they respond to an unequal social system.” (Haslam and Reicher, 2008). Method: Fifteen men were chosen to…

the issue is complicated.”(Judson, 12) An issue that is difficult to keep in conversation because it deals with politics and stirs up press. Complicated experiments are a way to say that animals that your children see in Zoos and love very much are being tested on to find the greatest impact a child can take when hitting some object. Experiments that are performed on these animals are too harsh for any living creature to bare through. Monkeys are strapped into helmets and bash in the head to…

the weaknesses of Reicher and Haslam’s experiment and whether the strengths outweigh the weaknesses. Indeed, both researchers came together to understand how individuals can accept, in a group environment, behaviours that are tyrannical whether the individual is the one who inflicts it or undergoes it (Reicher & Haslam, 2006). This experiment, base its research on Zimbardo’s prison experiment. However, it is not a replicate of The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) for different matters. Firstly,…

Freedman, 1966). In this second experiment, a different person ( not the original requester), without knowledge of the outcome of the first experiment, initiated the second inquiry (Jonathan L. Freedman, 1966). The small request asked of the subjects to sign a petition for either safe driving or in keeping California beautiful. The bigger request…

Introduction Rakoczy, Ehrling, Harris, and Schultze 's experiments wanted to evaluate how young children accept advice on topics they have no knowledge in; while how adults make judgements has been well-studied, the way children make judgements has not (Rakoczy et al., 2015, p.71-73). Through these experiments, Rakoczy et al. (2015) wanted to determine whether children actively sought advice from better informed, as adults would; additionally, they wanted to see whether or not children were…