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Food: 25 Amazing Projects Investigate the History and Science of What We Eat by Kathleen M. Reilly
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Creator Reilly, Kathleen M. Summary Presents twenty-five projects designed to help kids learn about the food they eat, the role it plays in daily life, the importance of a healthy diet, and the history of food. Most said that how much they liked the lecturer from what he said had not affected their evaluation of his individual characteristics at all.
The interesting thing about this study is that people can understand the phenomenon, but they are unaware when it is occurring. Without realizing it, humans make judgments and even when it is pointed out, they may still deny that it is a product of the halo effect phenomenon. Walter Mischel of Stanford University set out to study whether deferred gratification can be an indicator of future success. In his Marshmallow Experiment children ages four to six were taken into a room where a marshmallow was placed on the table in front of them on a table.
Before leaving each of the children alone in the room, the experimenter informed them that they would receive a second marshmallow if the first one was still on the table after they returned in 15 minutes. A small number of the children ate the marshmallow immediately and one-third delayed gratification long enough to receive the second marshmallow.
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In follow-up studies, Mischel found that those who deferred gratification were significantly more competent and received higher SAT scores than their peers, meaning that this characteristic likely remains with a person for life. While this study seems simplistic, the findings outline some of the foundational differences in individual traits that can predict success.
The Monster Study received this negative title due to the unethical methods that were used to determine the effects of positive and negative speech therapy on children. Wendell Johnson of the University of Iowa selected twenty-two orphaned children, some with stutters and some without. The children were in two groups and the group of children with stutters was placed in positive speech therapy, where they were praised for their fluency. The non-stutterers were placed in negative speech therapy, where they were disparaged for every mistake in grammar that they made.
As a result of the experiment, some of the children who received negative speech therapy suffered psychological effects and retained speech problems for the rest of their lives, making them examples of the significance of positive reinforcement in education. While the initial goal of the study was to investigate positive and negative speech therapy, the implication spanned much further into methods of teaching for young children.
An interesting study was conducted by the staff of the Washington Post to test how observant people are of what is going on around them. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3. In the 45 minutes the musician played his violin, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. Around 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace.
The study and the subsequent article organized by the Washington Post was part of a social experiment looking at perception, taste and the priorities of people. Some of the questions the article addresses are: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context? As it turns out, many of us are not nearly as perceptive to our environment as we might like to think.
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In , psychologists Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk set out to study depth perception in infants. They wanted to know if depth perception is a learned behavior or if it is something that we are born with. In order to study this, Gibson and Walk conducted the visual cliff experiment. Gibson and Walk studied 36 infants between the ages of six and 14 months, all of whom could crawl. The infants were placed one at a time on a visual cliff, which is this device seen above.
A visual cliff was created using a large glass table that was raised about a foot off the floor. Even though the glass table extends all the way across, the placement of the checker pattern on the floor creates the illusion of a sudden drop-off. Researchers placed a foot-wide centerboard between the shallow side and the deep side. Gibson and Walk found the following:. Among these experiments and psychological tests, we see boundaries pushed and theories taking on a life of their own.
It is through the endless stream of psychological experimentation that we can see simple hypotheses become guiding theories for those in this field. The greater field of psychology became a formal field of experimental study in , when Wilhelm Wundt established the first laboratory dedicated solely to psychological research in Leipzig, Germany.
Wundt was the first person to refer to himself as a psychologist. Since , psychology has grown into a massive collection of theories, concept, hypotheses, methods of practice and study and a specialty area within the field of healthcare. None of this would have been possible without these and many other important psychological experiments that have stood the test of time.
At the same time she volunteered as a rape crisis counselor, also in Philadelphia. After a few years in the field she accepted a teaching position at a local college where she currently teaches online psychology courses. Kristen began writing in college and still enjoys her work as a writer, editor, professor and mother.
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Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Surrogate Mother Experiment Study Conducted by: The experiment researchers set out three hypotheses they wanted to test: People thinking about religion and higher principles would be no more inclined to show helping behavior than laymen. People in a rush would be much less likely to show helping behavior. People who are religious for personal gain would be less likely to help than people who are religious because they want to gain some spiritual and personal insights into the meaning of life.
The Marshmallow Test Study Conducted by: The Monster Study Study Conducted by: Violinist at the Metro Experiment Study Conducted by: Metro Train Station Experiment Details: Visual Cliff Experiment Study Conducted by: Gibson and Walk found the following: Nine of the infants did not move off the centerboard.
All of the 27 infants who did move crossed into the shallow side when their mothers called them from the shallow side. Three of the infants crawled off the visual cliff toward their mother when called from the deep side.
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When called from the deep side, the remaining 24 children either crawled to the shallow side or cried because they could not cross the visual cliff and make it to their mother. What this study helped demonstrate is that depth perception is likely an inborn train in humans. For more information click here Among these experiments and psychological tests, we see boundaries pushed and theories taking on a life of their own.