The Dark Room-- Duffy, Zatar, Dawud, Imanlihen
11/12/18
For our project, our group has decided to study fear. We wanted to know how the body reacts to fear and why, as well as what makes us afraid of certain things. We have decided to create a dark room for people to enter and then inhibit a few of their main senses in order to see how a person reacts when they cannot control their surroundings. After, we will be asking those who have gone through our "dark room" questions about how they felt during the entire process as well as after it. In order to measure the body's response, we will be taking the person's blood pressure before the experiment and right after as well.
11/13/18
Today, we all worked together as a group in order to finish all of our student handouts. We were missing a group member so it did require us to work harder, but we almost finished. The goal is to get everything done by 6 and then I will be able to submit it before 10!
11/14/18
Today our group took a break from completing the assignments that were assigned to us in order to prep for the Psych Fair. Instead, we talked more in-depth about our plans for the actual fair-- which you will find out the day of the fair if you stick around long enough to see our pictures and videos! There will be no spoilers before the fair!
11/15/18
Today, we dived back into working on the assignments that were assigned to us in order to prep for our big day! Our group also discussed everything that needs to be done in order to prep for the actual fair including what possible events that could occur and interfere with our project as well as what we could do to prevent that. The answers to all of that is right here >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/181LT2Og2oe5f0OO7-fn8C13_Ek6O_L2KCt93PXaDN58/edit?usp=sharing
The group and I also went through the checklist we were given in order to understand what we have and have not accomplished. So far..... we have gotten everything done that was needed to be completed. We are all very proud of ourselves so far.
11/16/18
In class, we finished making the survey that we are going to make our participants take after the simulation in order to have a better understanding of how much fear they actually felt and if they were truthful about it in comparison with how their body will react. We also decided that in order to measure the body's physical reaction we will be taking the pulse and blood pressure of each participant before and after they are in the dark room. By doing so, we know if a participant was actually scared or if they were lying to make themselves feel better. We also submitted all of our assignments that were due today.
11/19/18
We submitted the rough draft of our guidelines for the project! Although it took a ton of time, this was one of the easier handouts because we just had to put together all of the info we had from previous handouts. By the way, we changed our hypothesis. Instead of it being: "To see how people react differently to fear", it is now a little bit more specific: If we send one person at a time into the dark room in order to experience the situation, then each person will feel some sort of fear because the brain naturally creates fears when it is in the dark and has a few of its senses blocked. Even though this assignment was on the easier side because all it needed was for us to pile our already gathered information about similar studies into one document, it did take a little while to get done.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-pRj9rk-Dk-EEPZsBvYhA5LA7lry0DJDGiEgjBlvKtg/edit?usp=sharing
11/20/18
Although I was not here, the group still did a lot today. Most last minute details were finalized while I worked on the poster and the pamphlet. Even though we are set to go on Thanksgiving break this week, a lot will still need to get done -- mainly, the poster which I will finish! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
11/25/18
THE PAMPHLET AND POSTER ARE DONE! Although I will not be showing you pictures until the day of the Psychology fair, if you stick around long enough you might be able to get a sneak peak of us setting up the simulation, booth, and our freakishly awesome brochure.
11/26/18
So today we had a snow day and everything got pushed back a day, which is not a bad thing because it gave us time to figure out some last minute things for our entire project. The only thing that needs to get done is to print a couple of things and paste them onto the poster.
11/28/18
Yay! Today was the Psych Fair! We all had so much fun conducting our simulation. After the first participant, we changed a few things that we did to each participant in the simulation. At first, we thought we would just go through the normal pre-routine that we planned out-- taking their blood pressure before and after the simulation, asking them questions about any health risks we should be concerned about, as well as how they normally respond to fear, and, finally, blindfolding their eyes and covering their ears with big headphones-- and then go through the simulation. Inside The Dark Room, we decided to use items such as fake pointed fingers-- that felt really weird by the way--, fake spiders, feathers, fuzzy pipe cleaners, and cotton balls in order to trigger the amygdala-- the fear controlling center of the brain. In doing so, we hoped that by controlling a few of their senses and then putting them in an extremely dark room, the rain would begin to imagine things and cause the participant to be extremely sensitive to whatever items we made them feel. However, as said before we changed our ending to the simulation after the first participant. Instead of just ending the simulation with a ridiculously high scream against creepy orchestra music, we decided that Tina or I would go outside of the room and peek in through the window while making a creepy face and then another person would push them, in the spinny chair we had them in, up to the window we were at-- personally, I think my face was pretty good because I did make a few people scream.
However, although very fun, there were a ton of unexpected situations that occurred. For example, in case you have not read the title of our project, it is called "The Dark Room". The entire purpose of the experiment was to put someone in a dark room and freak them out, but the "dark" part of the room kept being tampered with because someone kept turning the lights on multiple times during simulations. Because every participant had a different sized head, the blindfold we used to cover their eyes in the simulation sometimes allowed for cracks of light to peak through. At first, we weren't worried about that because the lights were off in the room, but when the lights continued to be turned on we started to worry that our data would be tampered with. However, our awesome Psychology teachers were always near so they were able to turn the lights back off when needed.
However, that was not the only issue we had occurring. During our simulation-- meaning while we had a participant in the actual Dark Room doing the experiment-- students-- specifically freshman and sophomores--, faculty, and district maintenance workers kept coming in and out of the room while we were working. Because our dark room was the little hallway/entryway in front of our school theatre, people were using our doors to get inside. Apparently, there was a dance class inside practicing during the fair and because we go to a high school, there would be a rush of students coming in and out before and after each class. Not only that there were issues in the control room and inside the theatre that needed the maintenance crew from the district to work inside and outside the theatre so they kept interrupting our experiment. Not to mention our own Psych teacher interrupted our experiment as well. The reason why this was an issue was because the room was already dark, hot, and cramped so the more people we had coming in and out of our experiment, the less room there was in the room for us to conduct the actual experiment and the more light entering our "Dark Room".
Also, there was the issue that after each participant went through the simulation they went ahead and told their friends what happened inside so when many people experienced the experiment, they did not have the reactions we expected them to have because they already knew what to expect. More often than not, it was the freshman and sophomores telling all their friends what our experiment entailed when the premise of our simulation was to keep it as secret as possible in order to see how people actually reacted to sensations, sounds, and visuals that would normally scare people.
As the fair began to come to a close, our digital sphygmomanometer began to die because it needed different batteries; however, it only failed us at the end when we had our last participant-- Mr. Geiger-- which was okay because by then we had recorded the results of 45 participants.
All in all, despite the many interruptions and unforeseen circumstances, we had a lot of people try our simulation-- 45 to be exact-- and it was a pretty fun day. Our Pamphles turned out so cool and every single person that did our simulation took our survey as well-- which was awesome. A lot of us, honestly, thought that our simulation would be a total failure but it really wasn't and we are all very happy with the way our results turned out. Below are some pictures from the fair, like the poster and pamphlets, as well as some links to the handouts we turned in and the data we collected during the fair. As much as we would have loved to take more pictures of the simulation itself and of us, I think we were all too preoccupied with making sure our simulation was running smoothly to stop and take pictures. Thanks for reading our blog, it was a blast writing it!
LINKS!!
- Our Data from the Fair
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kg1qbJ4GV9VQs9H0eoOEXHkPUZUkJzDkZCUa5n4CXyc/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XfdBgBbYJs6K8vThQlGVnCxDZCVly9_YxPabZBUNEI/edit?usp=sharing
-Pictures from the Fair
- Handouts we turned in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14p9O5gOZjo6gHQKSsqZOiDt_lYBbBz8lY6jnN-SZPDg/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-XLXyPu_IcKVYIDLptu-dO9wee2lb204hXj7D7OBxr0/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q8U2I_wmtdKFhS3W6scDPUIEK_9HOxj3oDf2B3FroE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kg7ZlDpsDAZGOLEFe72UXRNN9wHxTHwBCGD9bxMX0kI/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/181LT2Og2oe5f0OO7-fn8C13_Ek6O_L2KCt93PXaDN58/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pEsSEAz645Sn0eTIluRD5EAHT3z4kaWImzUxGyyZeM/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-pRj9rk-Dk-EEPZsBvYhA5LA7lry0DJDGiEgjBlvKtg/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K7mc0HlICmaF9hDpi_8mTdfLsoi15MeCg_2h8Emg1WE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sdrWPn15PYtVjQ0T_TCTEjUXyvmbkB1yzzrL2lqs6Xg/edit?usp=sharing
For our project, our group has decided to study fear. We wanted to know how the body reacts to fear and why, as well as what makes us afraid of certain things. We have decided to create a dark room for people to enter and then inhibit a few of their main senses in order to see how a person reacts when they cannot control their surroundings. After, we will be asking those who have gone through our "dark room" questions about how they felt during the entire process as well as after it. In order to measure the body's response, we will be taking the person's blood pressure before the experiment and right after as well.
11/13/18
Today, we all worked together as a group in order to finish all of our student handouts. We were missing a group member so it did require us to work harder, but we almost finished. The goal is to get everything done by 6 and then I will be able to submit it before 10!
11/14/18
Today our group took a break from completing the assignments that were assigned to us in order to prep for the Psych Fair. Instead, we talked more in-depth about our plans for the actual fair-- which you will find out the day of the fair if you stick around long enough to see our pictures and videos! There will be no spoilers before the fair!
11/15/18
Today, we dived back into working on the assignments that were assigned to us in order to prep for our big day! Our group also discussed everything that needs to be done in order to prep for the actual fair including what possible events that could occur and interfere with our project as well as what we could do to prevent that. The answers to all of that is right here >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/181LT2Og2oe5f0OO7-fn8C13_Ek6O_L2KCt93PXaDN58/edit?usp=sharing
The group and I also went through the checklist we were given in order to understand what we have and have not accomplished. So far..... we have gotten everything done that was needed to be completed. We are all very proud of ourselves so far.
11/16/18
In class, we finished making the survey that we are going to make our participants take after the simulation in order to have a better understanding of how much fear they actually felt and if they were truthful about it in comparison with how their body will react. We also decided that in order to measure the body's physical reaction we will be taking the pulse and blood pressure of each participant before and after they are in the dark room. By doing so, we know if a participant was actually scared or if they were lying to make themselves feel better. We also submitted all of our assignments that were due today.
11/19/18
We submitted the rough draft of our guidelines for the project! Although it took a ton of time, this was one of the easier handouts because we just had to put together all of the info we had from previous handouts. By the way, we changed our hypothesis. Instead of it being: "To see how people react differently to fear", it is now a little bit more specific: If we send one person at a time into the dark room in order to experience the situation, then each person will feel some sort of fear because the brain naturally creates fears when it is in the dark and has a few of its senses blocked. Even though this assignment was on the easier side because all it needed was for us to pile our already gathered information about similar studies into one document, it did take a little while to get done.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-pRj9rk-Dk-EEPZsBvYhA5LA7lry0DJDGiEgjBlvKtg/edit?usp=sharing
11/20/18
Although I was not here, the group still did a lot today. Most last minute details were finalized while I worked on the poster and the pamphlet. Even though we are set to go on Thanksgiving break this week, a lot will still need to get done -- mainly, the poster which I will finish! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
11/25/18
THE PAMPHLET AND POSTER ARE DONE! Although I will not be showing you pictures until the day of the Psychology fair, if you stick around long enough you might be able to get a sneak peak of us setting up the simulation, booth, and our freakishly awesome brochure.
11/26/18
So today we had a snow day and everything got pushed back a day, which is not a bad thing because it gave us time to figure out some last minute things for our entire project. The only thing that needs to get done is to print a couple of things and paste them onto the poster.
11/28/18
Yay! Today was the Psych Fair! We all had so much fun conducting our simulation. After the first participant, we changed a few things that we did to each participant in the simulation. At first, we thought we would just go through the normal pre-routine that we planned out-- taking their blood pressure before and after the simulation, asking them questions about any health risks we should be concerned about, as well as how they normally respond to fear, and, finally, blindfolding their eyes and covering their ears with big headphones-- and then go through the simulation. Inside The Dark Room, we decided to use items such as fake pointed fingers-- that felt really weird by the way--, fake spiders, feathers, fuzzy pipe cleaners, and cotton balls in order to trigger the amygdala-- the fear controlling center of the brain. In doing so, we hoped that by controlling a few of their senses and then putting them in an extremely dark room, the rain would begin to imagine things and cause the participant to be extremely sensitive to whatever items we made them feel. However, as said before we changed our ending to the simulation after the first participant. Instead of just ending the simulation with a ridiculously high scream against creepy orchestra music, we decided that Tina or I would go outside of the room and peek in through the window while making a creepy face and then another person would push them, in the spinny chair we had them in, up to the window we were at-- personally, I think my face was pretty good because I did make a few people scream.
However, although very fun, there were a ton of unexpected situations that occurred. For example, in case you have not read the title of our project, it is called "The Dark Room". The entire purpose of the experiment was to put someone in a dark room and freak them out, but the "dark" part of the room kept being tampered with because someone kept turning the lights on multiple times during simulations. Because every participant had a different sized head, the blindfold we used to cover their eyes in the simulation sometimes allowed for cracks of light to peak through. At first, we weren't worried about that because the lights were off in the room, but when the lights continued to be turned on we started to worry that our data would be tampered with. However, our awesome Psychology teachers were always near so they were able to turn the lights back off when needed.
However, that was not the only issue we had occurring. During our simulation-- meaning while we had a participant in the actual Dark Room doing the experiment-- students-- specifically freshman and sophomores--, faculty, and district maintenance workers kept coming in and out of the room while we were working. Because our dark room was the little hallway/entryway in front of our school theatre, people were using our doors to get inside. Apparently, there was a dance class inside practicing during the fair and because we go to a high school, there would be a rush of students coming in and out before and after each class. Not only that there were issues in the control room and inside the theatre that needed the maintenance crew from the district to work inside and outside the theatre so they kept interrupting our experiment. Not to mention our own Psych teacher interrupted our experiment as well. The reason why this was an issue was because the room was already dark, hot, and cramped so the more people we had coming in and out of our experiment, the less room there was in the room for us to conduct the actual experiment and the more light entering our "Dark Room".
Also, there was the issue that after each participant went through the simulation they went ahead and told their friends what happened inside so when many people experienced the experiment, they did not have the reactions we expected them to have because they already knew what to expect. More often than not, it was the freshman and sophomores telling all their friends what our experiment entailed when the premise of our simulation was to keep it as secret as possible in order to see how people actually reacted to sensations, sounds, and visuals that would normally scare people.
As the fair began to come to a close, our digital sphygmomanometer began to die because it needed different batteries; however, it only failed us at the end when we had our last participant-- Mr. Geiger-- which was okay because by then we had recorded the results of 45 participants.
All in all, despite the many interruptions and unforeseen circumstances, we had a lot of people try our simulation-- 45 to be exact-- and it was a pretty fun day. Our Pamphles turned out so cool and every single person that did our simulation took our survey as well-- which was awesome. A lot of us, honestly, thought that our simulation would be a total failure but it really wasn't and we are all very happy with the way our results turned out. Below are some pictures from the fair, like the poster and pamphlets, as well as some links to the handouts we turned in and the data we collected during the fair. As much as we would have loved to take more pictures of the simulation itself and of us, I think we were all too preoccupied with making sure our simulation was running smoothly to stop and take pictures. Thanks for reading our blog, it was a blast writing it!
LINKS!!
- Our Data from the Fair
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kg1qbJ4GV9VQs9H0eoOEXHkPUZUkJzDkZCUa5n4CXyc/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XfdBgBbYJs6K8vThQlGVnCxDZCVly9_YxPabZBUNEI/edit?usp=sharing
-Pictures from the Fair
- Handouts we turned in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14p9O5gOZjo6gHQKSsqZOiDt_lYBbBz8lY6jnN-SZPDg/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-XLXyPu_IcKVYIDLptu-dO9wee2lb204hXj7D7OBxr0/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q8U2I_wmtdKFhS3W6scDPUIEK_9HOxj3oDf2B3FroE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kg7ZlDpsDAZGOLEFe72UXRNN9wHxTHwBCGD9bxMX0kI/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/181LT2Og2oe5f0OO7-fn8C13_Ek6O_L2KCt93PXaDN58/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pEsSEAz645Sn0eTIluRD5EAHT3z4kaWImzUxGyyZeM/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-pRj9rk-Dk-EEPZsBvYhA5LA7lry0DJDGiEgjBlvKtg/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K7mc0HlICmaF9hDpi_8mTdfLsoi15MeCg_2h8Emg1WE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sdrWPn15PYtVjQ0T_TCTEjUXyvmbkB1yzzrL2lqs6Xg/edit?usp=sharing
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