Group 24
Writer: Layan Beirat
Group Members: Rachel Uniejewski, Kayla DeVitto, Caitlyn McCaughey
Day 1:
Our group experiment is about social conformity based off of Solomon Asch's Line test. Basically, we want to see how often or how easy it is to get an individual to follow a group/answer the same despite a difference in their beliefs Today, my group and I worked on our student handouts (hypothesis, thesis statement, questions). Our first Student Handout was called "Division of Labor" where we divided up who would contribute to the different parts of our experiment. Types of contributions include "creation of activities", "booth set up", "rough draft" and "final paper'. Our second student handout was a short list of four questions to help initiate our research. This includes what our audience will learn, and why the Line theory interests us. Our third student handout is called "Background research" and we research 3 psychology studies and summarize them. We chose Zimbardo's Prison experiment, Asch's Elevator conformity trial, and the "Rape Murder" to see if bystanders (neighbors) would act or conform to help the victim. We summarized them and explained why people conformed in those events. We then cited them. Student Handout 14 was our hypothesis and thesis statement: Will people conform with a group even when the majority of them answer incorrectly? and If a whole group of people said the wrong answer to an experiment, then the individual tested will follow the group’s answer. And lastly, student handout 15 is about variables- dependent, independent, and constant. The lines, if a person conforms, and the incorrect line the control group states.
Handouts:
11.) 11
12.) 12
13.)13
14.) 14
15.) 15
Day 2:
All of those handouts we completed were due for today. So now, we have to work on Student Handouts 16 and 17. SH 16 is called "Establishing your research activity" and is about what kinds of people we are to experiment. Ages 14-19 (because we are in a high school), male or female, and whether or not they're in groups or are being experimented on individually. The next section is about influences and how/what we will measurement in order to examine their influential responses. Time is also a factor in this handout. How long we will test it, and how many trials and surveys we need to conduct in order to get our wide range of answers. We believe that it will take one minute to conduct the line test, and throughout the day we hope to get 400-500 trials completed.
16
Day 3:
Today we started our rough draft (Student Handouts 18) and SH 19. Student Handout 18 was just a run-through summary of our project. Title, what, why, how, who, and results were all questions we have to answer. We also had to analyze specifically for our results, so we decided to complete that at the end, with percentages. SH 19 consisted of the same thing, except it asked some other questions such as do we need an electrical outlet, (yes), and if we needed anything photocopied (no). Our teacher also ran through a quick list of things he can offer us for our experiments in case we needed it, (technological devices, table/chairs, printing). So, we made our own materials list on student handout 20. (Amount of items, what kinds of items, if items need to be returned or not to our teacher.
Some materials were:
-Colored paper
-stickers
-3 chrome books
-a three fold poster board
-glue
-printer
-headphones
-scissors
-chromebook chargers (outlet)
SH 18
Day 4:
Today was a catch up day, so we just turned in our remaining student handouts and then choose how we wanted our booth to look and what we wanted to title it. We decided to use a catchy question, "Are you in line with the lines?" to actually get people to have a hint towards our hypothesis and the purpose of our experiment. Because of this, our volunteers wouldn't be "single-blinded", because they would already have an idea.
Day 5:
Today we took a break from our projects and watched a few videos, including a John Oliver monologue.
Day 6:
We filmed the video the students would have to watch. Rachel, one of our group members went up to our Psychology class and asked them the question, "Which line do you think matches with this one to my left" and given, there were three lines on the board, with one individual that matched one. The right answer is two, but of course everyone who raised their hand and answered among the class answered three. About 5 people answered 3. This purpose was to implement the idea of social pressure and to see if they would deviate from their own gut answer just because they're hearing the number three. We also went on a separate google docs and started the information that we would print in order to place on the poster board.
Day 7:
We started and finished our survey that the students would take following the 20 second video. The survey consisted of a few questions: grade (whether freshman, sophomore, junior or senior) female or male, and what line they chose as their answer.
Day 8:
This morning, we printed all of our research in the library at school because none of us had colored ink at home, nor did we have functioning printers. We decided we were going to cut them out (we didn't know in what order we would place them on the board yet), and glue them on the board. Today in class we cut our colored paper and pasted it underneath similar shaped cutouts of our researched information. All the facts went over what our rubric required, an explanation of the experiment, its origin (by who and all the steps that were taken by Solomon Asch with the school boys he tested), how it influences, and why and what conformity is. My other group members started copying and pasting parts of our rough draft into our final paper.
Research
Two of our group members went in tonight to set up the project for the fair for school the next day, but most importantly for that night as a test run-because it was parent night. From 5 pm to 7 pm, they set up the board on a table with a table cloth, put a few chairs behind the table, and set up the headphones and videos on the chrome books. The parents participated and liked the moral concept of the experiment-many said that it was important we individualize our own opinions and thoughts and not follow others based off of pressure.
Day 9:
Today is the day of Psych Fair! Due to a snow day, we had to push it back a day so it was Wednesday. Since we'd already set up the night before, there wasn't much to do besides hook up the headphones to our laptops and put the "courtesy candy" in the bowl, for all people that would participate. First hour was pretty hectic because we had to get used to the floods of people coming in through our little corner- while trying to get their attention. Our poster board was colorful and we had candy, but those were our only eye catching features, Unlike other groups who had lots of sweets such as cupcakes or brownies (which we know more people would be lured to). We only had two students go at once, one on each chromebook, and then when they were done the survey would be ready for them on another chromebook to fill out after. Unfortunately, not as many students were that excited to try ours just because it required more work, (to sit down, put headphones on, and watch the 20 second video). It didn't seem fun to them. But we got a handful throughout the day, and it was still really fun. We took shifts on and off with each other in pairs so we could eat and go visit other classmates' projects. My favorite was the "Stress Theory" because the test was to be asked 10 questions that aren't too difficult, in under a minute, while being yelled at and rushed the entire time by another person. This exemplified how stress influences your responses and how you can't focus on more than one thing at time, so I'm guessing their hypothesis proved correct.
My group and I really enjoyed the Psychology Fair, and despite the hard work, we had fun doing it all!
Here are some of our friends (all seniors) testing the Conformity Experiment.
Group Members: Rachel Uniejewski, Kayla DeVitto, Caitlyn McCaughey
Day 1:
Our group experiment is about social conformity based off of Solomon Asch's Line test. Basically, we want to see how often or how easy it is to get an individual to follow a group/answer the same despite a difference in their beliefs Today, my group and I worked on our student handouts (hypothesis, thesis statement, questions). Our first Student Handout was called "Division of Labor" where we divided up who would contribute to the different parts of our experiment. Types of contributions include "creation of activities", "booth set up", "rough draft" and "final paper'. Our second student handout was a short list of four questions to help initiate our research. This includes what our audience will learn, and why the Line theory interests us. Our third student handout is called "Background research" and we research 3 psychology studies and summarize them. We chose Zimbardo's Prison experiment, Asch's Elevator conformity trial, and the "Rape Murder" to see if bystanders (neighbors) would act or conform to help the victim. We summarized them and explained why people conformed in those events. We then cited them. Student Handout 14 was our hypothesis and thesis statement: Will people conform with a group even when the majority of them answer incorrectly? and If a whole group of people said the wrong answer to an experiment, then the individual tested will follow the group’s answer. And lastly, student handout 15 is about variables- dependent, independent, and constant. The lines, if a person conforms, and the incorrect line the control group states.
Handouts:
11.) 11
12.) 12
13.)13
14.) 14
15.) 15
Day 2:
All of those handouts we completed were due for today. So now, we have to work on Student Handouts 16 and 17. SH 16 is called "Establishing your research activity" and is about what kinds of people we are to experiment. Ages 14-19 (because we are in a high school), male or female, and whether or not they're in groups or are being experimented on individually. The next section is about influences and how/what we will measurement in order to examine their influential responses. Time is also a factor in this handout. How long we will test it, and how many trials and surveys we need to conduct in order to get our wide range of answers. We believe that it will take one minute to conduct the line test, and throughout the day we hope to get 400-500 trials completed.
16
Day 3:
Today we started our rough draft (Student Handouts 18) and SH 19. Student Handout 18 was just a run-through summary of our project. Title, what, why, how, who, and results were all questions we have to answer. We also had to analyze specifically for our results, so we decided to complete that at the end, with percentages. SH 19 consisted of the same thing, except it asked some other questions such as do we need an electrical outlet, (yes), and if we needed anything photocopied (no). Our teacher also ran through a quick list of things he can offer us for our experiments in case we needed it, (technological devices, table/chairs, printing). So, we made our own materials list on student handout 20. (Amount of items, what kinds of items, if items need to be returned or not to our teacher.
Some materials were:
-Colored paper
-stickers
-3 chrome books
-a three fold poster board
-glue
-printer
-headphones
-scissors
-chromebook chargers (outlet)
SH 18
Day 4:
Today was a catch up day, so we just turned in our remaining student handouts and then choose how we wanted our booth to look and what we wanted to title it. We decided to use a catchy question, "Are you in line with the lines?" to actually get people to have a hint towards our hypothesis and the purpose of our experiment. Because of this, our volunteers wouldn't be "single-blinded", because they would already have an idea.
Day 5:
Today we took a break from our projects and watched a few videos, including a John Oliver monologue.
Day 6:
We filmed the video the students would have to watch. Rachel, one of our group members went up to our Psychology class and asked them the question, "Which line do you think matches with this one to my left" and given, there were three lines on the board, with one individual that matched one. The right answer is two, but of course everyone who raised their hand and answered among the class answered three. About 5 people answered 3. This purpose was to implement the idea of social pressure and to see if they would deviate from their own gut answer just because they're hearing the number three. We also went on a separate google docs and started the information that we would print in order to place on the poster board.
Day 7:
We started and finished our survey that the students would take following the 20 second video. The survey consisted of a few questions: grade (whether freshman, sophomore, junior or senior) female or male, and what line they chose as their answer.
We also met in our free period (advisory) to finish up the last pieces of information (we couldn't get to the night before) we needed for the poster board, including some colored pictures to be visuals.
Day 8:
This morning, we printed all of our research in the library at school because none of us had colored ink at home, nor did we have functioning printers. We decided we were going to cut them out (we didn't know in what order we would place them on the board yet), and glue them on the board. Today in class we cut our colored paper and pasted it underneath similar shaped cutouts of our researched information. All the facts went over what our rubric required, an explanation of the experiment, its origin (by who and all the steps that were taken by Solomon Asch with the school boys he tested), how it influences, and why and what conformity is. My other group members started copying and pasting parts of our rough draft into our final paper.
Research
Two of our group members went in tonight to set up the project for the fair for school the next day, but most importantly for that night as a test run-because it was parent night. From 5 pm to 7 pm, they set up the board on a table with a table cloth, put a few chairs behind the table, and set up the headphones and videos on the chrome books. The parents participated and liked the moral concept of the experiment-many said that it was important we individualize our own opinions and thoughts and not follow others based off of pressure.
Day 9:Today is the day of Psych Fair! Due to a snow day, we had to push it back a day so it was Wednesday. Since we'd already set up the night before, there wasn't much to do besides hook up the headphones to our laptops and put the "courtesy candy" in the bowl, for all people that would participate. First hour was pretty hectic because we had to get used to the floods of people coming in through our little corner- while trying to get their attention. Our poster board was colorful and we had candy, but those were our only eye catching features, Unlike other groups who had lots of sweets such as cupcakes or brownies (which we know more people would be lured to). We only had two students go at once, one on each chromebook, and then when they were done the survey would be ready for them on another chromebook to fill out after. Unfortunately, not as many students were that excited to try ours just because it required more work, (to sit down, put headphones on, and watch the 20 second video). It didn't seem fun to them. But we got a handful throughout the day, and it was still really fun. We took shifts on and off with each other in pairs so we could eat and go visit other classmates' projects. My favorite was the "Stress Theory" because the test was to be asked 10 questions that aren't too difficult, in under a minute, while being yelled at and rushed the entire time by another person. This exemplified how stress influences your responses and how you can't focus on more than one thing at time, so I'm guessing their hypothesis proved correct.
- 160 participants
- 47.5% Female
- 45.6% Male
- 6.9% prefer not to say
- 22.6% Junior
- 16.4% Sophomore
- 12.6% Freshman
My group and I really enjoyed the Psychology Fair, and despite the hard work, we had fun doing it all!
Here are some of our friends (all seniors) testing the Conformity Experiment.
I'm looking forward to seeing your finished product.
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