Battle of Sexes: Memory Edition -Group 21
Kaitlyn Yi
Kaitlyn Yi
Our group began to establish our research activity with the following questions: How many students will be participating? What are the traits/characteristics of our participants? What will our procedure be?
By thinking about and by answering these questions, our group was able to create the proper experiment for the Psych Fair. After contemplating and considering various factors of this experiment (ex: possible conflicts, potential inaccuracy from uncontrollable elements, etc.), our group finalized our experiment's procedure and confirmed other aspects of this research.
The following link will lead to a document that contains today's work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/148WTAwuahJMV6B03vuEGsmgb5zsBFkwJq6MK53eBxRA/edit?usp=sharing
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.14.18
Today, our group began the process of finalizing the experiment. We worked on the following handouts: the paper's rough draft, the student request form, and the materials list. One of our members worked on the rough draft of the paper, while the other three members completed the two student materials and request form. By filling out these papers, our group was able to split up responsibilities for the production of our experiment, as well as determine how exactly our experiment will be set up.
Materials: paper forms (multiple, handmade)
candy (a reward)
timers (phone or stopwatches)
chromebooks (for the video)
table and chairs (for the set up)
art supplies (to design posterboard)
list (multiple, printed)
pens (multiple)
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.15.18
Our group finalized the materials needed for our procedure; we confirmed which individual is bringing specific items. In addition, we checked all of our documents to make sure that our assignments, research, and procedure/overall experiment are up-to-date, accurate, and do not require corrections.
Tomorrow, we hope to begin designing our poster board and/or create our experiment materials.
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.16.18
We did not work in our individual groups today, however, we were informed of important factors/stats to consider during the experiment: statistics, poster board design, etc. From being informed of these crucial elements of our project/experiment, our group developed a stronger foundation of our understanding of how to approach the upcoming Psych Fair.
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.19.18
Today, our group began to 'map out' our posterboard. We decided on the lay out of our research information, our procedure/experiment, and eye-catching details (ex: title, possible designs, etc). While completing the design process, our group also discussed potential setbacks of our experiments and finalized every aspect of our experiment to confirm that each of us fully understand what will be happening next week during the Psych Fair.
Plan for poster board: use stickers for 'titles' on poster board (more clean-cut look)
border the printouts of information with pink and blue paper (to stand out)
left side is research (facts, conclusion of researched experiments)
middle is title and hypothesis
right side is procedure of experiment (control and experimental)
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.20.18
Our group worked on the poster board; we made great progress! A picture will be put into the blog on Monday, as we still need to add finishing touches. Other than that, every other element to our experiment/project is complete and ready for the Psych Fair!
Add-ons: male and female symbols (drawn and cut out from leftover pink and blue paper) to put onto the middle section below the title
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.27.18
Today is the last day of us prepping for the Psych Fair. We double checked our poster to check for any missing information. This process took only a few minutes, as we finished majority of the process last week. After reviewing our poster, our group members made sure we had all of our supplies for the set-up tonight.
Tonight, we will be setting up our Psych Fair experiment, and we will be testing our experiment with our parents. Tomorrow, our experiment with the students will begin.
Here is a photo of our poster board: adding final touches to the board before presenting our experiment to the parents.
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has better short term memory?
11.28.18
We presented our experiment to students during the Psych Fair. We did not get as many students as we expected, however, we did receive an adequate amount of students. Many students were interested in versing their opposite-gender friends, as well as finding out how their performance compared to the average scores we received.
Before conducting the experiment, our group hypothesized that women will have greater short term memory than men. After grading and comparing the scores of the 162 recall papers, we found that the highest score (15/15) came from the males; females' highest score was a 14/15. Two class periods deviated from our hypothesis, as boys did have higher recall performance than girls. The range of scores remained the same regardless of whether the individual was put into the control or the experimental group.
Overall, our group enjoyed the experience of testing our peers and also conversing with new students. It was a little more difficult to get males' participation than females, but every person who was involved was supportive and engaging!
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: time 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 method in a more 'in-depth' manner during the next few days, however, we do have a general idea/guideline of how to perform this experiment:
a. memory list: a grocery list
b. distractor task: either a simple addition task or a short video clip.
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.13.18Our group began to establish our research activity with the following questions: How many students will be participating? What are the traits/characteristics of our participants? What will our procedure be?
By thinking about and by answering these questions, our group was able to create the proper experiment for the Psych Fair. After contemplating and considering various factors of this experiment (ex: possible conflicts, potential inaccuracy from uncontrollable elements, etc.), our group finalized our experiment's procedure and confirmed other aspects of this research.
The following link will lead to a document that contains today's work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/148WTAwuahJMV6B03vuEGsmgb5zsBFkwJq6MK53eBxRA/edit?usp=sharing
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.14.18
Today, our group began the process of finalizing the experiment. We worked on the following handouts: the paper's rough draft, the student request form, and the materials list. One of our members worked on the rough draft of the paper, while the other three members completed the two student materials and request form. By filling out these papers, our group was able to split up responsibilities for the production of our experiment, as well as determine how exactly our experiment will be set up.
Materials: paper forms (multiple, handmade)
candy (a reward)
timers (phone or stopwatches)
chromebooks (for the video)
table and chairs (for the set up)
art supplies (to design posterboard)
list (multiple, printed)
pens (multiple)
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.15.18
Our group finalized the materials needed for our procedure; we confirmed which individual is bringing specific items. In addition, we checked all of our documents to make sure that our assignments, research, and procedure/overall experiment are up-to-date, accurate, and do not require corrections.
Tomorrow, we hope to begin designing our poster board and/or create our experiment materials.
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.16.18
We did not work in our individual groups today, however, we were informed of important factors/stats to consider during the experiment: statistics, poster board design, etc. From being informed of these crucial elements of our project/experiment, our group developed a stronger foundation of our understanding of how to approach the upcoming Psych Fair.
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.19.18
Today, our group began to 'map out' our posterboard. We decided on the lay out of our research information, our procedure/experiment, and eye-catching details (ex: title, possible designs, etc). While completing the design process, our group also discussed potential setbacks of our experiments and finalized every aspect of our experiment to confirm that each of us fully understand what will be happening next week during the Psych Fair.
Plan for poster board: use stickers for 'titles' on poster board (more clean-cut look)
border the printouts of information with pink and blue paper (to stand out)
left side is research (facts, conclusion of researched experiments)
middle is title and hypothesis
right side is procedure of experiment (control and experimental)
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.20.18
Our group worked on the poster board; we made great progress! A picture will be put into the blog on Monday, as we still need to add finishing touches. Other than that, every other element to our experiment/project is complete and ready for the Psych Fair!
Add-ons: male and female symbols (drawn and cut out from leftover pink and blue paper) to put onto the middle section below the title
Kaitlyn Yi
Group 21: Which gender has greater short-term memory?
11.27.18
Today is the last day of us prepping for the Psych Fair. We double checked our poster to check for any missing information. This process took only a few minutes, as we finished majority of the process last week. After reviewing our poster, our group members made sure we had all of our supplies for the set-up tonight.
Tonight, we will be setting up our Psych Fair experiment, and we will be testing our experiment with our parents. Tomorrow, our experiment with the students will begin.
Here is a photo of our poster board: adding final touches to the board before presenting our experiment to the parents.
Group 21: Which gender has better short term memory?
11.28.18
We presented our experiment to students during the Psych Fair. We did not get as many students as we expected, however, we did receive an adequate amount of students. Many students were interested in versing their opposite-gender friends, as well as finding out how their performance compared to the average scores we received.
Before conducting the experiment, our group hypothesized that women will have greater short term memory than men. After grading and comparing the scores of the 162 recall papers, we found that the highest score (15/15) came from the males; females' highest score was a 14/15. Two class periods deviated from our hypothesis, as boys did have higher recall performance than girls. The range of scores remained the same regardless of whether the individual was put into the control or the experimental group.
Overall, our group enjoyed the experience of testing our peers and also conversing with new students. It was a little more difficult to get males' participation than females, but every person who was involved was supportive and engaging!
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