Started working on SH 13 and looking up information on our experiment.
Adding a financial incentive decreases the amount of time for a person to figure out the Candle problem.
Starting a hypothesis for experiment.
Functional Fixedness vs Cognitive Skills
Got our procedure ready! We just have to go out and buy the materials needed.
Will candy make people perform better or worse? Stay tuned to find out!
Finishing up our plans and getting ready to start our poster.
Here's a link to see other ways to think out side the box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgaup4zqz0
Finished our poster ad have everything ready to go for today and tomorrow.
The goal was to put the candle on the poster without the waxing touching the poster and to set it up in a way that the wax wouldn't drip onto the table. Here are some pics from today so far only around 8 people have figured it out.
Psych Fair went great! A lot of people came to try our experiment. People were given a box of tacs, candle, and set of matches. What they had to do what put the candle in a position that the wax wouldn't touch the board, and that the wax wouldn't drip onto the table. Functional fixedness played a role. People only tend to see things for one specific use. In our case people only saw a box of tacs as a box to hold the tacs. They didn't think they could dump the tacs out and pin it on the board then put the candle on the box.
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