Sentences with phrase «classic experiment»
They built on Ivan Pavlov's classic experiments on dogs, in which Pavlov would ring a bell before giving his dogs food.
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In one classic experiment by economist Ernst Fehr at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, people were given # 20 and asked to share as much or as little of it as they liked with an anonymous partner whose identity would never be revealed and who would never know the giver's identity.
However, classic experiments where the position of different growth plates was interchanged suggested that the local environment can modulate this genetic programme.
Update of classic experiment finds that «spooky action at a distance» goes hand in hand with unreality
A 30 - year - old classic experiment that is often used to argue against free will might have been misinterpreted.
This paper describes a replication of one of the most important early experiments in psychology, namely Ebbinghaus» classic experiment on forgetting from 1880 and 1885.
In a classic experiment, pioneer social psychologist Kurt Lewin found that different group climates could be created by varying the leadership from autocratic, to laissez faire, to democratic.
It isn't true as anyone who has studied experimental psychology will tell you — there's a classic experiment through which one can prove that goldfish can be trained that their food always comes down the yellow tube not the blue or red tube (no matter how the tubes are lined up), thus showing they have the ability to learn — which implies a memory span long enough to remember learned facts.
This weather activity combines a popular book and a classic experiment to introduce kids to tornadoes.
«In Harlow's classic experiment, two groups of baby rhesus monkeys were removed from their mothers.
The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.
In a classic experiment, a previously learned item was better remembered when memory was tested in the training environment.
«This can be explained by the peculiarities of the Poynting vector (energy) flow around the nanoparticles and formation of optical vortices, which produce a pattern of field lines similar to Young's classic experiment.»
Most people think of the «marshmallow experiment,» he said, referring to the classic experiment where children were tested for their ability to delay gratification by giving them the choice between one marshmallow now or two marshmallows a few minutes later.
In his search for these classic experiments, he even tries to duplicate a few himself, providing some entertaining asides.
Then, in a classic experiment known as the dictator game, subjects were asked to divide a small sum of money between themselves and a stranger.
In doing so, he may have cracked the «prisoner's dilemma,» a classic experiment of both social psychology and economics.
The first accurate measurement of G was not made, in fact, until 1797, more than a century after the discovery of the law of gravity, and it arose from a classic experiment performed by the English nobleman Henry Cavendish.
That's the basis for a classic experiment that tests whether children have something called theory of mind — the ability to attribute desires, intentions, and knowledge to others.
In a classic experiment from 1989, James Laird at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., found that low - level distraction — by way of a quiet television in the next room — caused participants to find a reading task «boring.»
Figure 2 is a variant of a classic experiment that produces a conflict between the two systems.
Two American physicists have recreated one of the classic experiments of quantum mechanics inside a single atom.
Where the classic experiment demonstrates that physicists» observations determine the behavior of a photon in the present, Wheeler's version shows that our observations in the present can affect how a photon behaved in the past.
To test the elephants» cooperation skills, a team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s, which requires two animals work together to earn a treat.
Part of the self - control measure was the impressions of their teachers and parents, but part of it was the classic experiment of being given an envelope sealed with a dollar bill and if you brought it back after a week later you got two dollars.
In now - classic experiments, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram gave people in Kansas a letter and asked them to attempt to forward it to a particular person in Massachusetts.
Now, physicists are performing various versions of this classic experiment (which Galileo probably never performed) to test a basic premise of Einstein's theory of gravity, or general relativity, called the equivalence principle.
The classic experiment performed by Dr. Miller when he was a graduate student in 1953 seemed to solve the scientific problem of how life began, at least in broad outline.
In a classic experiment, scientists have shown how Aplysia loses its protective response when an experimenter repeatedly touches a sensitive spot — the tube with which it draws water into its gills.
In a classic experiment, he replaced the immature cell nucleus in an egg cell of a frog with the nucleus from a mature intestinal cell.
After 3 — 4 days without carbohydrate consumption the CNS is «forced» to find alternative energy sources, and as demonstrated by the classic experiments of Cahill and colleagues4 this alternative energy source is derived from the overproduction of acetyl coenzyme A (CoA).
Some classic experiments designed to establish all the various changes that can be used to determine whether a Chemical reaction has taken place.
A New York City teacher explains how he uses this classic experiment to teach self - control.
The classic experiment on the issue was performed in the 1960s when interactions were observed between adults and a baby, at times dressed in pink and called Jane and at other times dressed in blue and called John.
This was a classic experiment in physics at school by boiling water then sealing the container and allowing it to cool...
A classic experiment on cloud parameterization was Senior and Mitchell (1993).
-- Sensitivity: «There is a classic experiment in psychology,» Cain says.