Group 21 - Brain Flip

March 8, 2016: Today we received our experiment for the Psychology Fair. Our group is doing the mirror maze experiment, which is an experiment that focuses on perception. We will time a student completing a maze normally, and then we will have them complete the same maze while looking in the mirror. We will them compare the times it took the student to complete both mazes. Yay Psych Fair!

March 9, 2016: Today we learned about APA citations, and how we build our research project for our experiment. We will discuss other psychology experiments and then explain our own experiment. After that, we started our research on perception and our experiment. We determined what we know about the topic, what we want to know about the topic, and what about our topic interests us.

March 10, 2016: Today, we created our thesis/ hypothesis for our experiment. We also started working on some research on our topic

March 11, 2016: Today we worked more on our research on perception.

March 14, 2016: Today we completed our research as well as deciding what our variables will be. We will not have a control group technically, since every participant will be completing the same tasks. Our research led us to determining the basis of our experiment, perception. The following video is similar to what our experiment will be like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8QRbCcAxE

March 15, 2016: Today we worked on SH 16 and 17, which dealt with the logistics of the experiment. We will try to test almost 600 students on the day of psych fair, we will time them with a stopwatch, and we will put the data into a spreadsheet.

March 16, 2016: Today we worked on our research paper by combining different elements of our student handouts into SH 18. We also decided to name the experiment "Brain Flip" due to the change in perception that will occur during the experiment.

March 17, 2016: Today we learned about statistics and how to create a Google form in order to effectively collect and organize data. We also completed SH 18, which was the rough draft of our research paper. Lea also brought in our poster for the fair, so we will start working on that soon!

March 18, 2016: Today we started working on our posters for the Psychology Fair. We will include our hypothesis and relevant research in it.

March 21, 2016: Today we continued working on our poster. We added glitter and color to spruce it up, and tomorrow we will finalize our poster as well as possibly creating a Google form for the experiment.

March 22, 2016: Today we finalized our poster, and we secured the needed objects for Psych Fair. We will need to borrow a stopwatch from the PE department. The mazes are printed, and we already had the mirror and the box. Only two days left until the Psych Fair!

March 23, 2016: Today we discussed our final strategy for Psych Fair. We will take turns timing and putting information into the chromebook. Also, Mr Vuillaume talked to us about the details for parent night and tomorrow. We are so excited for tomorrow!

March 24, 2016: Today is Psych Fair! In first hour alone, we tested almost 90 people. Our hypothesis seems to be correct, as it takes much more time to complete the maze with the mirror than without. Also, some participants get frustrated with themselves as they try to complete the mirror maze. We are havinf a great time!