Misdirection- Arakelian, Harris, O'Reilly, Barnett
November 12th:
So far, we have gotten through a good amount of the student handouts. We have been figuring out all the little aspects of our project. Our experiment is meant to result in unintentional blindness. We will have one subject who will be playing spoons with us. We'll ask another person to step in the booth (which will be sectioned off as others cannot see it or it will ruin it) to be an observer. We want to compare how they notice the changes versus how the subject does not, they will be told not to say anything until the end of the experiment. 3 of us will introduce ourselves with one under the table and 2 will start to play spoons with the subject. One (Ally) will drop her card and another person (Hailey) will take her place from under the table all in the middle of a round. Another person (Gianna) will be switching background elements in the booth, such as switching mugs on the table, unveiling a whiteboard, and possibly changing her shirt. Gianna will be standing in the back and not playing spoons. At the end of the round, we will first see if the subject says anything about the changes. If not, we will ask the subject if they notice anything different from the beginning. If they don't, we will bring in the observer to point out all the changes that happen. It will show how them focusing so hard on one task will make them not notice large changes in scenery. The final person, Kennedy, will need to play spoons really fast to keep their focus. Spoons is a game that requires intense focus anyways, but making it faster would make it even more attention-grabbing.
November 13th:
We have continued working through the handouts, we're almost done with all of the ones to turn in. We have come up with our thesis, (A person is more likely to place their focus on something they are specifically told to focus on, rather than the events around them. ). And our hypothesis is: If a subject is told to focus on one task, then they will not notice changes they otherwise would notice to their surroundings. We have our poster board and have come up with our design for it. We will use magazine cutout letters for all the headings to make it look more mysterious, like misdirection. We also plan to use typewriter font for the writing to make it look like old-fashioned detectives, along with pictures hung from string to make it look like a detectives board. We have continued working through all of the little problems that have come up for our booth. We have been thinking of any little thing that can go wrong so that we can prevent them from happening. We want to make sure everything goes as planned and the subject does not notice our changes.
November 14th:
We didn't have class, but the next day....
November 15th:
We worked on assignment 16 and came up with more of a plan as to how we will go about the experiment. We also did assignment 17 and fixed our hypothesis, so we better understood what we would be testing. We then started working on assignment 18 to make a rough draft for our final essay.
November 16th:
We continued working on assignment 18 making the rough draft. We worked on assignment 19 and requested a corner and a divider as we need to be secluded. If other people saw us moving things around, the experiment would be ruined for them. We decided we need one laptop to give out a survey at the end of the experiment, and we sketched out our booth:
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November 19th:
We finished and turned in assignment 18, the rough draft for our essay. We then worked on assignment 20, writing down every object we would need for the experiment. We needed a deck of cards and spoons (from Hailey) and mugs, a tablecloth, and things for the table from Ally, Kennedy, and Gianna. We did not need to purchase anything, we picked things from our houses to use so we wouldn't have to buy anything.
November 20th:
We looked over assignment 21 and designed our poster board. We chose to use magazine clippings for the headings to look more mysterious. We then did assignment 22, which is just the same layout as we have copied above. We also looked over assignment 26 and then designed our brochure:
So far, we have gotten through a good amount of the student handouts. We have been figuring out all the little aspects of our project. Our experiment is meant to result in unintentional blindness. We will have one subject who will be playing spoons with us. We'll ask another person to step in the booth (which will be sectioned off as others cannot see it or it will ruin it) to be an observer. We want to compare how they notice the changes versus how the subject does not, they will be told not to say anything until the end of the experiment. 3 of us will introduce ourselves with one under the table and 2 will start to play spoons with the subject. One (Ally) will drop her card and another person (Hailey) will take her place from under the table all in the middle of a round. Another person (Gianna) will be switching background elements in the booth, such as switching mugs on the table, unveiling a whiteboard, and possibly changing her shirt. Gianna will be standing in the back and not playing spoons. At the end of the round, we will first see if the subject says anything about the changes. If not, we will ask the subject if they notice anything different from the beginning. If they don't, we will bring in the observer to point out all the changes that happen. It will show how them focusing so hard on one task will make them not notice large changes in scenery. The final person, Kennedy, will need to play spoons really fast to keep their focus. Spoons is a game that requires intense focus anyways, but making it faster would make it even more attention-grabbing.
November 13th:
We have continued working through the handouts, we're almost done with all of the ones to turn in. We have come up with our thesis, (A person is more likely to place their focus on something they are specifically told to focus on, rather than the events around them. ). And our hypothesis is: If a subject is told to focus on one task, then they will not notice changes they otherwise would notice to their surroundings. We have our poster board and have come up with our design for it. We will use magazine cutout letters for all the headings to make it look more mysterious, like misdirection. We also plan to use typewriter font for the writing to make it look like old-fashioned detectives, along with pictures hung from string to make it look like a detectives board. We have continued working through all of the little problems that have come up for our booth. We have been thinking of any little thing that can go wrong so that we can prevent them from happening. We want to make sure everything goes as planned and the subject does not notice our changes.
November 14th:
We didn't have class, but the next day....
November 15th:
We worked on assignment 16 and came up with more of a plan as to how we will go about the experiment. We also did assignment 17 and fixed our hypothesis, so we better understood what we would be testing. We then started working on assignment 18 to make a rough draft for our final essay.
November 16th:
We continued working on assignment 18 making the rough draft. We worked on assignment 19 and requested a corner and a divider as we need to be secluded. If other people saw us moving things around, the experiment would be ruined for them. We decided we need one laptop to give out a survey at the end of the experiment, and we sketched out our booth:
November 19th:
We finished and turned in assignment 18, the rough draft for our essay. We then worked on assignment 20, writing down every object we would need for the experiment. We needed a deck of cards and spoons (from Hailey) and mugs, a tablecloth, and things for the table from Ally, Kennedy, and Gianna. We did not need to purchase anything, we picked things from our houses to use so we wouldn't have to buy anything.
November 20th:
We looked over assignment 21 and designed our poster board. We chose to use magazine clippings for the headings to look more mysterious. We then did assignment 22, which is just the same layout as we have copied above. We also looked over assignment 26 and then designed our brochure:
Psych Fair November 26-27, 2018
Inattentional BlindnessWhy did we choose this topic?Our group was interested in this topic, because of the Brain Games video we watched in psychology class. We found it amazing how the human brain functions while being told to focus on one idea. Misdirection and inattentional blindness can be dangerous during real life situations, such as driving. So, our group decided to research this a bit more to educate ourselves on this topic. |
Psych Fair November 26-27, 2018
What’D you miss?
Inattentional Blindness
Research Question: When people are told to focus on one idea, will they notice the changes made around their surroundings?
Background Information: People lose focus on the changes being made around them, when they are told to focus on another idea. For example, people focusing on a game or an object will not notice anything moving around them, because of inattentional blindness. The brain cannot focus on more than one idea at a time, otherwise known as multi-tasking.
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Psych Fair. November 26-27, 2018
Misdirection
BY: Ally O’ReillyGianna ArakelianHailey BarnettKennedy HarrisBooth: FourTeacher: Geiger
InatTentional Blindness
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We had thanksgiving break the rest of the week.
November 26th:
There was a snow day so no school and the parent psych fair at night got moved to Tuesday night and the day time one to Wednesday.
November 27th:
We finished up everything with our presentation and got all our things together. Since the fair was moved we all either had work or other club commitments made and were not able to go to that fair.
November 28th:
The daytime psych fair happened on the 28th. We got a lot of good material in and had 171 participants in our experiment. We ended up changing our plans a little as we got into the testing. We ended up not having a person stand in the booth to watch the experiment happening, it was just unrealistic to have and was unneeded. We got a lot of great participants that were very confused after we showed them what we had switched. Some people noticed Hailey bending down, but did not notice that it was a new person that came back up. Others didn't even notice they switched after we brought them both out. It was great and everyone filled out our survey, so we got accurate data from them. It was so interesting to see how confused some people got after they realized what we had done, most of them did not realize there had been any changes even after we pointed them out. If people are told to focus on one thing, they really don't notice their surroundings.
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