What Was Experimentally Wrong With The Ghostbusters

Gretchen Brandt was a subject in the experiment who supported Milgram's and other psychologists' predictions regarding the outcome. She demonstrated that a person with a resolute state of mind would use their moral judgment and not inflict pain on another person. Throughout Brandt's experiment, the learner complained about the shocks, stating he had a heart condition. After Brandt administered 210 volts, she told the experimenter that she didn't believe they should continue. The experimenter calmly instructed her to continue until the learner had learned all the word pairs correctly. Brandt was firm with her decision and stated she believed the shocks were hurting the learner. She refused to administer any more shocks, and the experiment ended.

2.What other factors did you need to control during your investigation? Explain how you controlled each one in your procedure.

1. Describe the types of instrument(s) you plan to use for your study (e.g., interview protocol, attitudinal survey, achievement test, observation scale, questionnaire, focus group protocol, etc.).

Instructions: This is a group activity that you will start in class and complete at home. For each of the following, note, whether the research design used is an experiment, a quasi-experiment, or a correlational approach and why. If a study is an experiment, identify the independent variable and the dependent variable. Please type your answers in complete sentences.

2. Choose one of the research questions from above and consider it in more detail. Based upon the question, what would be a reasonable hypothesis?

The subjects of the experiment believed that they were taking part in a study on the relationship of learning and punishment. The subject would sit in a room and ask questions to an actor in another room, who was supposed to be another subject. In front of the questioner was a box that had a series of buttons labeled from 15 volts to 450 volts. The subject was told to shock the person every time they answered incorrectly, increasing the voltage each time. As the shocks got worse, the actor would make noise, bang on the wall, yell for help, etc. but the researcher would tell the subject to keep going. Milgrim found, contrary to many psychologists predictions, that sixty-five percent of the subjects delivered the shocks all the way up to 450 volts (Slater).

To start out with a research where we use the experimental method, we first have to state what will be studied in our experiment. In this case, we will look at the problem of does sugar affect attention in small children. My hypothesis is that sugar will interfere with small children’s attention. The operational definition for affect attention will be measured by a learning lesson with the children. Where at the end of the lesson, children will complete a test from the subject that has been discussed during the lesson.

Stanley Milgram writes about his shocking experiment in “Perils of Obedience.” Milgram writes on the behaviors that the people had during the experiment. Milgram had an experiment that involves two people. One person was a student and the other a teacher. The student was strapped into an electric chair and was required to answer certain questions. The teacher asked a certain word, and the student must know the pair that goes with it. If the student answered the question incorrectly, the teacher must shock the student. Each time the student answered a question incorrectly, the volts increase. Milgram was expecting the teachers to back out of the experiment once they saw the student in pain for the first time, but surprisingly enough, more than sixty percent of the teachers obeyed the experimenter and continued on with the experiment, reaching up to four-hundred-fifty volts. After three times of the four-hundred-fifty volt shock, the experiment was called to halt.

2.     What is the purpose of conducting an experiment? How does an experimental design accomplish its purpose?

The main ethical issue with this experiment was the use of deception as the participants did not know the truth behind this study. Participants believe that they were shocking the learners and they were under severe stress due to this is possible that they had suffered psychological injuries. The participants have the right to withdraw from the study if they wanted; however, this was not made clear to them. Also, participants did not receive enough information about the study.

What type of study will you conduct? Will it be experimental? Quasi-experimental? Provide a rationale for your

One might think that this experiment will stimulate the new research in the area of human obedience, but this did not occur. Despite the difficulties and the courage of Burger to conduct a partial replication of the original study, it did not produce any different outcomes and did not spark any new ideas in psychology (Burger, 2009). Instead, the researcher had to deal with an enormous amount of different commentaries and controversy. My main rationale for disapproving the Burger’s study is ethical characteristics of the Milgram paradigm. More specifically, now we have the Ethical Rules of the APA, which tell us that researchers should honor rights of participants to privacy, confidentiality and the right to withdraw the experiment. However, Milgram’s paradigm clearly challenges these fundamental rights and creates even more ethical dilemmas. Another rationale that I can include is the infliction of increasing pain on an unwilling participant, a characteristic that is unacceptable in modern psychological studies. Therefore, I would disapprove such experiment, because of ethical non-compliance and little contribution to the field. As for me, I view following ethical practices in my dissertation project work as a crucial element for success. It will allow me to produce reliable, meaningful and relevant scholarly data that would not be a subject to ethical

In The film industry, females are viewed as delicate individuals that continuously rely on males for support. Instead of being educated, they are known for being oblivious to everything that is happening while men are both vigorous and knowledgeable of all things. The movie Ghostbusters (2016) challenges this idea by using role reversal to change how society views men and women and to prove that gender has nothing to do with a person's intelligence. For example, Dr. Erin Gilbert was one of the female main characters that was a professor at Columbia University. In the scene where Erin was in her office on her computer, the camera does a quick scan of the room to show all of her awards that she received from previous schools. The director includes

For my extension, I did an experiment on if extroversion and introversion would affect short-term memory in a human being. For the experiment, I gathered four test subjects randomly based on what I assumed their personality to be and made them do a personality test. Then, I recorded their results on my phone by taking pictures, but they did the short-term memory test  the next day. The short-term memory test consisted a total of six questions where after each question, the test subjects had to write down the letters they remembered on a piece of paper. They did four trials in total and I recorded the data on my phone

Populations for this experiment are psychics and non-psychics in this experiment, I will not sample the subjects/population randomly as random sampling makes sure that all variables amongst the subjects are accounted for. By randomly sampling them in this instance is admitting that the subject now has an ability they never had, so random sampling is not necessary because the only variables are psychics and non-psychics. ii. I will test at least 60 individuals in each group in this case the more individuals I test the more reliable data I will acquire. As for Dr. Venkmen concern on finding real psychics I have to find people who work in magic shows, circus, carnivals, and fortune tellers in local festivals so that we call tell who has esp. and finding non-psychics is pretty easy just get people from the streets. iii. Extraneous variables that I would test is there any cases of individuals with a history of drug abuse and mental health problems as these variables may conflict with the experiment also I will not use random participants to groups because random assignment and control of extraneous variables are important in experiments that test the effects of drugs and impulses. Since the experiment is about ESP in two groups of people, different conditions between the subjects is not important as long as I screen for psychics and non-psychics our data will be fine. 2b. The two things I will use for this test/experiment will Zener cards and a person to deal Zener cards in