Taking Sides Paper Brigham Young University SFL 210, 002 Taking Sides: Media Violence The issue of media violence and the effect it has on children has had major impacts in the work and research of many scientist and psychologists. Professor of communication Jib Fowles argues that the effects of exposure of media violence on children does not harm them and any results from such research are so slight that it can be ignored. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze three flaws and one strength of the research done on the “No” side of the article “Is Media Violence Harmful to Children?” Summary The issue of Media Violence is a very controversial issue, it has had many people and social psychologists wonder about the influence that media has on children. The article “Is Media Violence Harmful to Children?” is split into two sections and Professor Fowles is on the No side of the article. He states that results of research on the harmful effects of media violence on children are either so vague that they can be openly interpreted to something different or so insignificant that they can be ignored.
He is not only informally treating and collecting specimen from his daughter, but he is also not documenting any of the treatments that he is doing. This is a major problem and could be subject to intervention by the law. Joe is risking his medical credibility by doing this for his daughter. He is also performing these tests without the direct supervision of the supervising physician, which goes against the code of conduct (2013). If a physician assistant violates laws that vary from state to state, the physician assistant could be subject to license suspension or being
After this, loud noises were then tested to see if this would strike fear in the child. When hitting a steel bar with a hammer to create a loud sound, the scientists noticed this had caused a negative reaction in Albert. Hitting the bar the first time caused his breathing to speed up. Hitting the bar the second time caused his lips to tremble and hitting the bar the third time caused him to cry. The scientists then brought the animals in to see if they could transfer the fear into the child when they were presented.
Since the conditioned fear lasted after 31 days they claimed it might last for Albert’s whole life. B) From the information gathered about this experiment, it is clearly unethical. Firstly, in the psychological code of ethics it is stated that participants must voluntarily agree to be in the study without being persuaded. This was already an issue as the participant was an infant who obviously couldn’t have an opinion or give consent. A study is also considered unethical if it causes any mental or physical harm to the participants.
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Dr. Kenneth Schonberg a pediatric doctor says, "There's no evidence that a child who is spanked moderately is going to grow up to be a criminal or anti-social or violent" (Rosellini 2). Although many psychologists and doctors have tried to prove this with false statistics, there is only proof that properly spanking a child will only benefit him or
Although those who seek to end animal research – either because they choose to reject its well established usefulness or because they believe the life of a rat is equal in importance to that of a child – persist in their efforts to sabotage medical research with break-ins, thefts, arsons, harassment and intimidation of researchers, there can be no question that there is a great need for animals in medical research to prevent deadly diseases, to ensure the safety of the general public of unstable cosmetics and household products that are used every
They are this crude and painful: Force the chemicals down the animals' throats, smear them onto their abraded backs or inject them directly into their stomachs until the animals die. Metabolic differences After the bodies have piled up, we know how much turpentine or gasoline kills a rabbit -- but, while the rabbit suffers every bit as much as a person, physiologically a rabbit is not a person: His body metabolizes chemicals in far different
However, the situation and the circumstances in the environment were so powerful that it slowly distorted their personalities. After a few days of the experiment, the guards were too caught up in the events that were taking place and transformed from ordinary, normal young men into sadistic guards. They were incapable to make judgments based on their moral and intellectual knowledge. Same with the prisoners, the overwhelmingly powerful situation they were placed in caused the prisoners to behave sadistically and depressing which later caused signs of extreme stress and emotional breakdowns. All in all, the Stanford Prison Experiment illustrates how authority, unequal balance of power, and the situation that one is placed can all lead to converting ordinary people into committing unconventional acts.
Even though the consequences of such practices were often fatal and with prolonged effects to the subjects, knowledge was obtained through this type of research. Researchers who engage in such experimentation overlook the end importance of the research, which is to enhance human development. These methods of gaining knowledge, breach ethical conducts for the gain of the researchers. Promoting ethical preservation in this field and use of strict punishment to the violators of the ethics in research should be a priority. In the 1900, a small group of American doctors did unethical experiments on prisoners in the Philippines.