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The Psychological Consequences of Prison Life

available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...

MEALWORM EXPERIMENT AND WRITE-UP

statistically significant. We also discussed some limitations, which involved temperature at which the mealworms were fed and time...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

The Theme of Obsession in “Frankenstein”

father, who dismisses them as "trash" with no further explanation (Shelley 51). Frankenstein says that if his father had bothered ...

Illusory Conjunction Experiment

elements relate to a comparative view of visual factors within a field of vision, which can create different responses to the foca...

Peter Dear: “Miracles, Experiments and the Ordinary Course of Nature”

the 17th century, a time when religion was a powerful force in society, and when going against church teaching was considered here...

Visual Perception/The Stroop Experiment

an incongruent series of color names, i.e., "red" is written in blue ink, etc. Stroop showed that it takes subjects longer to iden...

The Effects of Daily Watering on Grass Growth and Color

The owner of House B might use fertilizer, while the owner of House B may not. The soil conditions might also differ. The owner ...

Bristol-Meyers and the Ethics of AIDS Research

This 3 page paper discusses the ethical implications of Bristol-Meyers’ use of African villagers in an AIDS drug testing experimen...

Social Psychology - An Overview

a synthetic viewpoint along the nature vs nurture spectrum, holding that while some types of personality might be oriented towards...

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

Children with Specific Language Impairment and the Relationship between Working Memory and Language Learning: An Experimental Analysis

diagnosed with SLI than in the hearing-impaired children. In other words, a diminished functioning of complex working memory may ...

Stanford Prison Experiment

people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular t...

Flowers for Algernon - Intelligence and Dehumanization

people he thought of as his friends were merely teasing him because of his retardation, and later on, he even begins to suffer iso...

Reading and Perceiving Color

The time it takes individuals to enunciate a color when presented with the written word representing that color can vary according...

Implications for Ethical Leadership from the Milgram Experiments

condition would result in his death. Nevertheless, the authoritative doctor continued to call for the button to be pressed, and to...

Observational Learning and Free Will

discipline of marketing and advertising, and indeed the entire basis of consumer society, is predicated upon an assumption of free...

Two Questions in Psychology

resuilts in problematic outcomes. This is not true; experimental designs sometimes result in problematic outcomes for the partici...

Medical Research: Can It Be Done Ethically?

there are examples, especially in research, where ethics has been abandoned in the hope of achieving some sort of breakthrough. Th...

Watching Employees to Increase Productivity

know theyre being watched? The obvious answer would seem to be yes, because no one wants the boss to think theyre "goofing off." T...

Self Sufficiency Among Ex-Slaves

off the coast of South Carolina served as the location of the Port Royal Experiment. Although it was not planned to occur as it d...

Human Experimentation during the Nazi Era

government subsequently published fourteen guidelines governing human experimentation that provided detailed and strict precaution...

Amish Teenagers and Their Distinct Subculture

beliefs of the Amish revolve around the Bible, the major tenets of which include adult baptism, separation from the world, simplic...

Discussion of the Scientific Method

sunny window and the other cup was placed outside that it received direct sunlight. In both cases, the plants grew straight up unt...

Social Surrogacy Hypothesis

emotional ties to the characters on the television. One assumption made is that the social surrogacy hypothesis is valid. One wr...

Feeling A Lack of Control Over One's Environment

2001). Later, he placed new dogs with no harnesses in and unharnessed the original dogs and provided an escape. The new dogs look...

Article on TV Violence

violence on television should either be eliminated altogether or at least reduced, and th television industry claims it is only im...

A Justification of Alien Abductioins from a Utilitarian Perspective

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

Live Classroom Experiments and their Significance

of letting the students make discoveries on their own. That is, they tend to lecture, repeat whats in the book, and then go on to...