Thomas 1 Kenya Thomas Instructor Stan Weeber Sociology 201-U 27 December 2013 Module Two Assignment 2B a. The procedures were the suspect being picked up at his home, charged, warned of his legal rights, spread-eagled against the police car, searched and handcuffed. People did not know that this was an experiment, so they were very confused. The suspect was then put in the rear of a police car, carried off to the police station with sirens wailing. The car arrived at the station, the
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didn’t want to continue then the researcher would give a series of orders to ensure that they proceed. (Chalenor, 2012) The results were a shocking 65% of teachers that went all the way to the highest level of 450 volts. (Chalenor, 2012) Milgram’s study revealed that people are able to follow orders given to them by
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Summary of Milgram's Research Stanley Milgram (1963) was a social psychologist who set out to investigate human obedience, especially following the Second World War and in particular, the Holocaust (Milgram, 1963). Milgram’s interest was to conduct a study to answer the research question, are Germans different? However, as Milgram began to develop a tool used for studying obedience, he soon discovered that all individuals are remarkably obedient to people in authority. Milgram chose a naive subject to
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Children and Their Best Friends Mike Shihadeh Wayne State University Method Participants The subjects of the experiment consisted of a total of forty-one children, twenty-one females and twenty males. Their ages ranged from 3-15 divided into three separate groups. The three groups consisted of a 3-5 age group, a group with ages 8-10, and lastly a group of ages 13-15. The group with the 3-5 year olds consisted of nine males and three females for a total of twelve total
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Recording and presenting your data 1 Calculate the cross-sectional area A of the wire using the equation A = ¼πd2 2 Record your values for m and x in a table of results. Include columns for F and for the stress and the strain, where F = mg Stress = F/A Strain = x / L Where F is the applied force, x is the extension, A is the cross-sectional area and L is the original length and g = 9.81 m.s-2. 3 Plot a graph of stress (y-axis) against strain (x-axis). Analyzing your data 1 Calculate the gradient
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Alexis Hayden Dietmar Krumrey Eng 101 11 September 2014 Human Response to Authority The phrase ‘don’t tell me what to do’ is one of the first negative responses that we learn as kids. For example, when a person’s brother or sister tries forcing a task out of him or her, the response is usually similar to that. However, what if that reaction is not learned, but merely a natural response to authority? In the podcast ‘The Bad Show’, they explore that very question with experiments and found that
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Dustin Rim Mrs. Bartlett Psychology PY177M1 January 20, 2016 The Milgram Experiment: Obedience The Milgram Experiment were based on obedience to authority figures. A series of notable social psychology experiment conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s. It measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure when put in unconformable position. Stanley asked himself “How far will a human being go if an anonymous authority orders him to torture
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The Office of Strategic Services lead by Donavan William who had gathered a team of scientists to search for a speech inducing drug to be used in intelligence interrogations. The research with various types of drug produced mixed and confusing results. After the war, the CIA and military picked up the research left unfinished by the OSS. The LSD histry began in the 1950’s when the CIA invetigators were still in pursuit of the miracle drug to use against people they interrogated. Dr. Werner Stoll
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Questions 1. The data from the experiment Dr. Trudeau describes is shown below in Figure 1. Graphs like Figure 1 are called survival curves. Write a narration of the figure describing the results of the experiment. Explain why the rabbits are emaciated in groups 1 and 2. (Please note: What Dr. Trudeau called Experiments 1, 2, and 3 are more like what modern scientists would call treatment groups 1, 2, and 3, and that terminology is used in Figure 1.) 2. Calculate the survival rate for each
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World domination. It may simply begin through the depths of an evil scientist, but in reality, standardized tests are the culprit. Standardized Testing: two words that as soon as teachers, their students, and administrators hear this, they fret. The day where all outstanding abilities acquired throughout the year is assessed at once. All this joyful news of how standardized testing supposedly creates miracles of our knowledge, increasing student achievement, may be proven wrong or right, but that
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