Group 7
How long can your hand stay in ice water?
This experiment is testing how long your hand can stay in ice water with a distraction versus with no distraction.
11/12/18
Our experiment is testing whether participating in a conversation or answering questions blocks the pain that comes with having your hand in ice water for a period of time. One student will be at one end of the table and the other student will be at the other end of the table, and there will be a poster board in the middle so that they cannot see each other. One student will be asked a set of questions with their hand in the ice water and will be preoccupied answering them, while the other student will be directed to not talk to their friends. Because there will be a poster board in the middle of the students, they will not be able to base their end time off the other participant. Today we assigned roles and completed handouts 11, 12, 14, 15, and we are in the process of working on 13. We have found our reference studies and we are now gathering the information from the studies to compare to ours. From the studies we have found that the person who has a distraction will be able to keep their hand in the ice water longer than the person who has no distractions.
11/13/18
Today we are working on comparing our experiment with the three studies we found. We took our three studies and wrote on how they relate to our experiment for the psychology fair. We also worked on our plan for the poster that will be on display during the fair. This will hopefully draw people to our table to participate. We have decided that we will be asking personal questions (favorite class, hobbies, etc...) which will prompt a conversation in hopes to distract from the pain.
11/14/18
Today we listed out the steps to complete our experiment on the day of the psych fair.
In addition to that, we figured out the materials we need for the fair (ice, 2 buckets, candy, computer, timers, charger, 2 trifolds, big separator, our poster for explaining)
11/15/18
Today we figured out the materials we will need for our experiment
11/16/18
Today we finalized our hypothesis: the individual who is being asked a set of questions(distracted) will stay in the ice water longer than the individual who is not being asked questions(not distracted). We came to this conclusion based on the studies that we researched...
My group also discussed what our poster board was going to look like in order to attract students.
11/20/19
Today we are working on our poster board. We also made sure that we have all the materials for monday.
Title: How long can your hand stay in ice water
11/27/18
Today we finished our poster board and made sure that we have all the supplies for tomorrow. We are getting a cooler full of ice and a big jug of water for the fair during the day. Tonight is parent night, so we are bringing our supplies and performing our experiment on volunteers. Tonight we had parent night so, we were able to see what worked and what didn't. We found that the parents wanted competition so they would hold their hand in the ice water longer than they actually could because they wanted to beat their husband or wife. We also had to use different buckets because the bowls we brought we not deep enough.
11/28/19
Today we had the psych fair with all the students. We got a lot of volunteers to do our experiment and it worked much better today because we were able to see what worked and what didn't last night. It was important for us to make sure that the student who wasn't being distracted understood that he/she would not be able to talk to any of their friends. We had to have a max time of 5 minutes in order to make sure that as many people as possible could participate. Overall we thought that everyone who participated underestimated the amount of pain the cold water would cause. For the most part, the students who were distracted kept their hand in longer than the student who had to sit in silence.
Today mostly went as planned. We used 2 water jugs and a cooler filled with ice from the athletic office. We had to refill the buckets 2 times throughout the day and the water stayed very cold. We ended up having 99 volunteers come up to our table from parent night and the actual fair day. Our ice kept spilling. We wanted to keep one distracted and one not distracted, however that didn't always go as planned because once one person would take their hand out, they would get up and the next person would want to go right away. Also it was difficult to make sure that the non distracted students really had no distractions because teachers and friends would come up to them and try and talk which would then make them distracted. In addition to that, some students really wanted to beat their friend, so they wouldn't take their hand out even thought they couldn't handle it anymore.
This experiment is testing how long your hand can stay in ice water with a distraction versus with no distraction.
11/12/18
Our experiment is testing whether participating in a conversation or answering questions blocks the pain that comes with having your hand in ice water for a period of time. One student will be at one end of the table and the other student will be at the other end of the table, and there will be a poster board in the middle so that they cannot see each other. One student will be asked a set of questions with their hand in the ice water and will be preoccupied answering them, while the other student will be directed to not talk to their friends. Because there will be a poster board in the middle of the students, they will not be able to base their end time off the other participant. Today we assigned roles and completed handouts 11, 12, 14, 15, and we are in the process of working on 13. We have found our reference studies and we are now gathering the information from the studies to compare to ours. From the studies we have found that the person who has a distraction will be able to keep their hand in the ice water longer than the person who has no distractions.
11/13/18
Today we are working on comparing our experiment with the three studies we found. We took our three studies and wrote on how they relate to our experiment for the psychology fair. We also worked on our plan for the poster that will be on display during the fair. This will hopefully draw people to our table to participate. We have decided that we will be asking personal questions (favorite class, hobbies, etc...) which will prompt a conversation in hopes to distract from the pain.
11/14/18
Today we listed out the steps to complete our experiment on the day of the psych fair.
- Two volunteers will stand at both ends of the table with a divider between them and a trifold around them.
- We will tell them to put their hands in the ice water once the timer starts. There hands must be in the water up to their wrists. We will also tell one of the volunteers to not talk or have any interaction with anyone. They must focus on their hands in the ice.(control group) However, we will inform them that they can take their hand out of the ice water at anytime.
- Once the timer start, we will tell the volunteers to submerge their hand in the ice water up to their wrist.
- We will then start to distract the other volunteer who isn’t focusing on their hand in the ice water. We will distract the volunteer by asking more personal questions that can turn into a conversation, such as What activities do you participate outside of school?(Dependent variable)
- If both of the volunteers or one of them keep their hand in the water for 4 minutes, then we will stop the timer and let them take their hands out. There will be a timer for each volunteer. Once they take their hands out of the water, the timer will be stopped in order to compare the different times.
In addition to that, we figured out the materials we need for the fair (ice, 2 buckets, candy, computer, timers, charger, 2 trifolds, big separator, our poster for explaining)
11/15/18
Today we figured out the materials we will need for our experiment
- Ice buckets
- timers
- dividers
- ice
- water
- poster board
11/16/18
Today we finalized our hypothesis: the individual who is being asked a set of questions(distracted) will stay in the ice water longer than the individual who is not being asked questions(not distracted). We came to this conclusion based on the studies that we researched...
Weiss, K. E., PhD, Dahlquist, L. M., PhD, & Wohlheiter, K., MS. (2011, January 29). The Effects of Interactive and Passive Distraction on Cold Pressor Pain in Preschool-aged Children.
Retrieved November 12, 2018, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146755/
Retrieved November 12, 2018, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146755/
Christefeld, N. (1997, November 4). Memory for Pain and the Delayed Effects of Distraction. Retrieved November 13, 2018, from
Brownstein, J. (n.d.). Distraction Reduces Pain, Study Finds. Retrieved November 12, 2018, from https://www.livescience.com/18361-distraction-reduces-pain.html
We also finished our rough draft and turned it in.
11/19/19
Today my group made a visitor handout that we will pass out on the say of the fair.
11/19/19
Today my group made a visitor handout that we will pass out on the say of the fair.
PSYCHOLOGY FAIR 2018
Mr. Geiger
How long can you keep your hand in ice water?
7- Kate Hudson, Grace Kupczyk, Taryn Mitchell, Grace Stepanek
This experiment is testing the theory that pain can be lessened through distraction.
The prediction is that a person being asked personal questions with their hands submerged
in the ice water will last longer than a person not being distracted with their hands in the ice water.
Several studies have been done to prove this theory. In particular, experimenters,
Weiss, Dahlquist, and Wohlheiter, distracted kids from ages 3-5 by having them watch
and play videos games while their non-dominant hand was in a cold pressor.
The kids were able to keep their non-dominant hand submerged in the water for 18 and 26 s
when not being distracted and 38 and 54 s when being distracted. Hopefully,
the experiment being conducted at the Psychology Fair will reflect the same results as the
study done by Weiss, Dahlquist, and Wohlheiter. There is a chance that humans can possibly
control the amount of pain they feel with their minds, and this experiment is the stepping stone
for that philosophy.
The prediction is that a person being asked personal questions with their hands submerged
in the ice water will last longer than a person not being distracted with their hands in the ice water.
Several studies have been done to prove this theory. In particular, experimenters,
Weiss, Dahlquist, and Wohlheiter, distracted kids from ages 3-5 by having them watch
and play videos games while their non-dominant hand was in a cold pressor.
The kids were able to keep their non-dominant hand submerged in the water for 18 and 26 s
when not being distracted and 38 and 54 s when being distracted. Hopefully,
the experiment being conducted at the Psychology Fair will reflect the same results as the
study done by Weiss, Dahlquist, and Wohlheiter. There is a chance that humans can possibly
control the amount of pain they feel with their minds, and this experiment is the stepping stone
for that philosophy.
My group also discussed what our poster board was going to look like in order to attract students.
11/20/19
Today we are working on our poster board. We also made sure that we have all the materials for monday.
Title: How long can your hand stay in ice water
11/27/18
Today we finished our poster board and made sure that we have all the supplies for tomorrow. We are getting a cooler full of ice and a big jug of water for the fair during the day. Tonight is parent night, so we are bringing our supplies and performing our experiment on volunteers. Tonight we had parent night so, we were able to see what worked and what didn't. We found that the parents wanted competition so they would hold their hand in the ice water longer than they actually could because they wanted to beat their husband or wife. We also had to use different buckets because the bowls we brought we not deep enough.
11/28/19
Today we had the psych fair with all the students. We got a lot of volunteers to do our experiment and it worked much better today because we were able to see what worked and what didn't last night. It was important for us to make sure that the student who wasn't being distracted understood that he/she would not be able to talk to any of their friends. We had to have a max time of 5 minutes in order to make sure that as many people as possible could participate. Overall we thought that everyone who participated underestimated the amount of pain the cold water would cause. For the most part, the students who were distracted kept their hand in longer than the student who had to sit in silence.
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One students wanted to see how long he could go just for fun! His time--and record time-- was 10 minutes. (This was not used for our data) |
Today mostly went as planned. We used 2 water jugs and a cooler filled with ice from the athletic office. We had to refill the buckets 2 times throughout the day and the water stayed very cold. We ended up having 99 volunteers come up to our table from parent night and the actual fair day. Our ice kept spilling. We wanted to keep one distracted and one not distracted, however that didn't always go as planned because once one person would take their hand out, they would get up and the next person would want to go right away. Also it was difficult to make sure that the non distracted students really had no distractions because teachers and friends would come up to them and try and talk which would then make them distracted. In addition to that, some students really wanted to beat their friend, so they wouldn't take their hand out even thought they couldn't handle it anymore.
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