The Experiment

for this experiment were the students attending their psychology 101 class during normal class hours. The entire class consisted of thirteen males and eleven females all of which attend Western New England University and all had agreed to participate in the experiment. Materials The material used was simply two different answer sheets, one half of the participants got one, while the other half got the other answer sheet. One answer sheet had basic instructions of the experiment while the other had more detailed instructions and hints on how to succeed at the experiment. Procedure The students were divided into two groups, Group A and Group B. There was no choosing of who was in each groups, the class was simply…

Average Metabolic Rate Difference of Goldfish in Dark vs. Ambient Light Introduction Metabolism is an interesting field of study to better understand what is happening inside of the body of different organisms that keep them alive. Goldfish (Carassius auratus) were used for this experiment since these small animals metabolism can be easily influenced by different variables. This is due to the fact that goldfish are poikilothermic whose internal temperature is influenced by their surroundings.…

The marshmallow study was a tossup regarding the outcome of the children. What real evidence was produced to make this a true experiment to believe? To state that the children who ate the marshmallow were destined to be unsuccessful I think is a bit far stretched. If anything, the children that decided not to eat the marshmallow practiced self-control and that was to earn the extra marshmallow. Self-control is something the other children lacked, but just like anything it can be strengthened and…

What is a dual task experiment? A dual task experiment is a procedure done in psychology that requires an individual to perform two tasks simultaneously in order to compare a performance based on a single task. In David Strayer and William Johnstons experiment, they performed a dual task study that assessed the effects of cellular phone conversations on performance of a simulated driving task. The purpose of this was to determine if driving while on the phone lead to a failure to detect traffic…

Introduction The experiment will be working with diffusion and osmosis; it will test if the starch will travel through the semi permeable membrane (dialysis tube) causing osmosis. Diffusion is when a substance is highly concentrated turns into a lower concentration, and is evenly distributed throughout. An example of diffusion is when you cook and the smell of food flows until it in dynamic equilibrium; which is the even distribution of the substance. Osmosis is the movement through a semi…

Frankly, negative advertising appears to have increased tremendously. Negative political campaign ads are everywhere on the television, radio, and in newspapers. In contemplating such an increase, if I believe that negative advertising causes individuals to vote against the political candidate attacked in an advertisement, an experiment could be performed to test that theory. In designing an experiment to test this theory, my research question would be “Does negative advertising cause…

never address the explanations for these reason why our body react a certain way toward salsa. I thought it was all right for a person to feel that way. However, it wasn’t that case so we did an experiment on the real reason behind why our body perform a certain way. For this reason, the guideline behind this experiment is to check whether every individual body temperature reacts the same. We never thought about spicy food can help our body in ways like in the treatment of dermatological,…

Challenged Debates focused on ethics have been argued by many factions and seem to have been in an infinite loop since the idea of experimenting on humans began. Those who wish to further their progress by running trials on human subjects man the front for one side of the argument, and those who run the opposition to human experimentation provide resistance. The latter is held in control by the Institutional Review Board or IRB. But what happens if it is the same entity for both fields of the…

The purpose of this experiment was to study how images interfere with the categorization of an animal as mammal or non-mammal. Eight individuals performed an animal Stroop task where they were asked to identify the animal named as mammal or non-mammal. The interference condition was images of a different animal, and the neutral condition was images of nature. The goal was to label the animal listed in the word box that was in the middle of the image. After the experiment was performed, it was…

Psychologist conduct experiments in order to have a better understanding on how the human brain works. There are four different types of experiments; experimental, quasi experiment, qualitative, and quantitative. Both of the experiments we chose are considered to be experimental. The two experiments we chose are the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the effects of change blindness on the human brain. “Change Blindness is a failure to detect that an object has moved or disappeared and is the…