Scientific Analysis

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170825124902.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 1: How dancing or physical exercise done by elders can have an anti-aging effect on the brain.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: It just says elderly volunteers, with an average age of 68, it doesn’t say a specific number of subjects.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: Yes, there was two different groups each elderly could be assigned to, and they both involved training to.

Question 4: How were the subjects chose?

Answer 4: They were recruited, volunteers.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer 5: Both groups had to go through 18-month weekly course of either learning dance routines, or endurance and flexibility training.

Question 6: How did the subjects react?

Answer 6: Both groups showed an increase in the hippocampus region of the brain.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Answer 7: Yes, because the experimenters proved that dancing and physical exercise can prolong the aging life of the brain.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170828102719.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 1: Experimenters have revealed how eating stimulates brain’s endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: Does not say how many subjects there were.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: Yes, there was because the subjects were injected with a radioactive compound binding to their brain’s opioid receptors.

Question 4: How were the subjects chosen?

Answer 4: Does not say how the subjects were chosen.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer 5: There subjects were injected with a radioactive compound binding to their brain’s opioid receptors. The brain was then measured three times with a PET camera: after a palatable meal, after a non-palatable meal, and then after an overnight fast.

Question 6: How did the subject react?

Answer 6: It does not say how the subjects react to the experiment.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Answer 7: They did because they proved that eating stimulates the brain’s endogenous opioid system.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170829124507.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 2: Children that are excluded from school may lead to long-term psychiatric problems and psychological distress.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: Thousands of children.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: No, there was not a control group.

Question 4: How were the subjects chosen?

Answer 4: They were chosen on if they were excluded from school.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer: They experimenters researched on the brains function on how it responded to school.

Question 6: How did the subjects react?

Answer 6: They subjects showed psychological distress.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experiments expected?

Answer 7: It does not say if the subjects acted the way the experimenters expected or not.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170829124510.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 1: Experimenters researched the pathway of interdomain communication in a family of proteins, trying to develop new anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: They used a family of proteins.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: Yes, because the protein group has to be watched often for change.

Question 4: How were the subjects chosen?

Answer 4: They chose the protein Hsp70s because they are more likely help aid in antibiotic, and treatments for Alzheimer’s.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer 5: They had to study the movement of the protein, so they used a technique called molecular dynamics.

Question 6: How did the subjects react?

Answer 6: The technique they used gathered data that proved the simulations for the proteins.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Answer 7: Yes, the proteins worked and are just like putting a puzzle together because everything worked and fit together to verify the simulations done to the proteins worked. Now the experimenters are one step closer to finding a way to make anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics, and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Psychology Entry #1

Question and Answers

Q: What is your favorite word?
A: Bubbles

Q:What is your least favorite word?
A: Anemone

Q: What one thing do you like about your life?
A: Having friends

Q: What one thing do you not like about your life?
A: Arguing with my parents and siblings

Q: What profession would you life to attempt?
A: Radiologist Technician

Q: What profession would you never attempt?
A: Flight Attendant

Q: What 3 words best describe you?
A: Quiet, kind, funny

Journal Entry

Why would I want to study psychology? I wanted to join psychology because I want to learn how our minds work and comprehend things. I want to learn this because I feel that it is important for everyone to know how our mind comprehends to certain situations. I think it would be cool to learn how you mind responds to different situations such as a relative passing away or scoring a point in a basketball game. I want to know how, and why our minds respond the way they do. I feel like knowing how our mind functions this way will help me be able to respond to things better. Learning how and why the brain comprehends things and works is what I hope to gain from taking psychology in high school. 

What I hope to gain from my experience in psychology class is the ability to know how someone is feeling and the ability to help someone through a situation, so they don’t have to do it alone. What I want to gain from you being our teacher for psychology is knowing how to have fun in class, but at the same time to be serious and to get homework done and handed in on time. What I also hope to gain from you being our teacher is your ability to teach and tell other people how the brain works and comprehends to certain situations.

Asian Auschwitz Response Paper LW

I believe what the people in Unit 731 did to the innocent prisoners in this camp was horrible. Those people in Unit 731 should not have been treated, let alone die for no reason. They were treated like they were animals and they died and suffered for absolutely no reason. Reading that article made me want to cry, knowing that innocent people died just for some stupid medical reason.

Unit 731 was a place where brutalities occurred and it was an undercover medical experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. If the men that “worked” in Unit 731 thought or did disobey they would be killed for not listening and following orders that were given to them. The numbers of prisoners were lower. From 1936 to 1942 between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women, and even children were basically murdered in Unit 731. The prisoners that were used for experiments were nicknamed “logs” because the cover story that was given to the local authorities about Unit 731 was that it was a lumber mill.

The men tortured innocent humans until they died. The men that were apart of Unit 731 were ordered by Shiro Ishii to “experiment” on ordinary Japanese citizens. What some of these men had to do to the prisoners was very gruesome. Some of them had to cut out internal organs such as the; kidneys, liver, heart, and even the wombs of pregnant mothers. These actions were often viewed as educational to improve the knowledge of human anatomy. These results were referred to as biological warfare. The prisoners suffered for no reason and the men that did that to them, had to live the rest of their life knowing what they did to them.

Unit 731 was worse than most concentration camps. The prisoners suffered more severely in Unit 731 then they did in the Nazi death camps that Hitler had organized. The prisoners suffered from amputation, gas chambers, frost bite, internal organs that were cut out of there body, being electrically charged until they were slowly roasted to death, and some prisoners were even decapitated to test the sharpness of the soldiers swords. Many prisoners were chained by hand and foot, they were often fed well and exercised regularly. “Unless you work with a healthy body you can’t get results,” a member of the Unit had said this in the article. I found it interesting they kept the prisoners fed well and exercised them regularly just to murder them later for some experiment.

Why was Shiro Ishii able to die at home of throat cancer at the age of 67 after a prosperous and untroubled life? The answer to this question is that Japanese were allowed to erase Unit 731 from the archives by the American Government, which the government at the time wanted Ishii’s biological warfare findings for itself.

In conclusion, what happened to the prisoners in Unit 731 was absolutely terrible. It should have never happened. Those people should have never been used as genie pigs for experiments. I feel terrible about what happened to those innocent people in Unit 731 and I think they should be memorized for what happened to them.

Muckraker Assignment LW

http://muckrakerfarm.com/2016/09/donald-trump-retooled-charity-spend-peoples-money/

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/fact-checking-donald-trumps-charity-claims

        The top link is the article I am interpreting. The second link is the link that helps support the first article. The link was published in September of 2016 by the Washington Post.The article is about how Trump retooled Trump Foundation to spend other peoples money. I find this wrong in so many ways. The money should be left alone and used to help people in need, not for his own personal use.

Donald Trump

 
    Donald J. Trump Foundation is different from other charities. An investigation of the foundation found that it collects and spends money in an unusual way. One thing is that all the money comes from other people, not Trump. In the tax records, the last donation from Trump was in 2008. Since then, all of the donations have been from other people's money. After the foundation gets the donation, Trump does what he pleases with the money. He usually passes the money on to other charities. These charities are often under the impression that it is Trump's own money.

        Knowing this, Trump has been lying to many people. It has been proven in two cases that he has used some of the money to by himself gifts. One of those cases he used 20,000 dollars that was supposed to be used for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot tall painting of himself. I find this wrong in so many ways. For instance the money could and should be used to help people, not for his personal use.

        In September 2016, it was researched that the Trump Foundation had used some of the money for political purposes. Doing this is against the law. It was reported in late September that Trump had paid a penalty in 2016 to the Internal Revenue Service for a 2013 donation. The foundation gave 25,000 dollars to a campaign group affiliated with Florida Attorney.

       

Trump Tower, where Trump Foundation is located

      He has claimed that he gives money to charity from his own pocket. He told the Washington Post "I don't have to give you records, but I've given millions away." Research to solidify this have not succeeded. Knowing this Trump has refused to release his tax returns, by him doing this it would show his charitable giving.

      I find the way Donald Trump is using the money from the charity wrong. He should not be using it for his own personal use. The money needs to be used to help the people in need.


       

Political Quiz

1.  Who are the top three presidential candidate you are most like?

    

      1. Martin O'Malley  2. James Webb  3. John Kasich

2.  What political party are you most likely to side with?

      Democratic Party

3.  What past presidents are you most likely to agree with?

     Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower

4.  What political philosophy are you most likely to agree with?  Where on the spectrum did you fall?

     Conservative-Leaning Populist, and top middle in Populist group