Psychology Fair 2018

Group 27 Day 1: We just created our blog and we're going to record everything on it. We are currently finishing up our student handouts at the moment and conducting research on our topic, pressure/stress Day 2: Today we are working on the student handout after we distributed the work evenly.  We are conducting more research on our topic and getting some ideas on how to set up our experiment. Day 3: We worked on the student handouts and we conducted more research on our topic.  We also created a rough idea of how we should conduct our experiment Day 4: We talked about how we should run the experiment and we came to an agreement so we know exactly how we should run our experiment. We're going to create a quick trivia quiz that consists of 10 questions that our participants are going to have to answer in under a minute.  We will put pressure on them in different ways. Day 5: We brought in a posterboard for psych fair and we made some minor changes to our experiment.  One

To start off our process on how my group and I led up to completing our experiment consisted of 15 days. As Mr.V explained the process on how as a group we would first chose what experiment we wanted to do, second he explained how there would be student handouts given each day. These handouts purpose was to break down what needed to be done throughout the course of our project, there were 23 student handouts in total also including this blog and final paper This experiment is the study of how your vestibular and kinesthetic sense works along with your peripheral vision. It also shows how your peripheral vision will take an effect onto the vestibular sense. Our moving box also referred to as the Magical Mystery box examines how ones kinesthetic and vestibular senses affect someone's balance. Day 1:  Day one of the process for psych fair consisted of being assigned one experiment that we chose, our experiment was the box. Mr.V gave the first 5 student handouts,

Day 1: Monday, November 11th, 2018 Today, we are splitting up the work to organize how we will proceed with this experiment Day 2: Tuesday, November 12th, 2018 Today, my group and I are trying to divide our 4 different documents so that we can each do an equal amount of work: Choosing a Topic, Background Research, Creating an Hypothesis, and Identifying Variables. We chose a topic in which we decided to test the strength of ones ability to scent by making them detect different smells from food. Day 3: Wednesday, November 13th, 2018 My group and I are very stressed about finding research for our project. Not a lot of studies are shown to test out the experiment of the ability to smell. There were such little studies that we found similar articles to each one and pull out small details that would help develop our experiment. We came up with a hypothesis: If a scent is given to an individual, then it is most likely a female rather than a male to identify the smell correct due to t

In our experiment, we are studying how the brain changes words automatically even if the inside letters are jumbled. In our experiment, we keep the first and last letter the same of the word we want to have but we switch or jumble the letters in between. Since we don't pronounce every single letter our brains automatically change it into the word we want. Today we have started forms 11,12,13 and currently working on 14. Today we are finishing up more such as hypothesis, materials needed, and what are our variables in our experiment. On November 16, we all contributed to working on Google forms 18,19 20. The rough draft was written and we know how we want our booth. On November 19, We started working on our poster for our visual during our fair we looked up what we needed to out on board and looked up pictures. We also started our slideshow that we are going to have the volunteers read and see their accuracy and how fast they can read the slides compared to normal. We have a surv

How brand name affect consumers This experiment is testing how the brand name of products affect the consumers. Does the name justify the taste of the product or is the consumer simply brain washed by the logo? How does this experiment work? The participants of this experience will have the choice of an off brand idem and real brand idem, they will eat the idem thinking they are consuming one, but they will actually be tasting the other. After, they have the first choice of which one they would like we will allow them to have the other as well. Then we will ask them which one they like better. If they pick the branded idem they will actually be consuming the off branded one. This will tell us that they are picking it for the name. Day to day summaries 11/12: My group and I found studies that did the same experiment as us and analyzed their data and how it relates. We also worked together to create an thesis for our project. We created cause and effect questions that co

Kaitlyn Yi Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory? 11.12.18  Our group focused on the basic elements of our experiment: hypothesis, variables and control, and possible methods of research/experimentation.  Hypothesis : Women have greater short-term memory than men.  Variables&Controls : a. independent : the gender of the participants b. dependent : the short-term memory/recall score c. confounding variables : amount of sleep participants received, the amount of nutrients participants received that day (eating breakfast/lunch/snack prior to experiment), socioeconomic and sociocultural traits of participants, how often the participants go to the grocery store. d. control variables : t ime to memorize, time between memorization and giving answers, time to give answers, what the participants are being asked to memorize (grocery list) e. control group : the group that will not be receiving a distractor task Method : We will be discussing the