Group 4 - Ice Cream Social

3/8/16
Today we picked our experiment. We decided to do an experiment involving taste perception and ice cream. We are going to dye certain ice cream flavors different colors so that people who taste it are expecting it to taste like what it looks like but then it is actually a different flavor so it will throw people off.

3/9/16
Today we started working on our annotated bibliography on Student Handout number 13. We had to find experiments similar to ours and analyze them.

3/10/16
Today we worked on Student Handout 13, in which we found background studies that related to our experiment and then compared those studies to our own.

3/11/16
Today we worked on Student Handouts 14 and 15. In student Handout 14, we came up with a thesis for our experiment. Our thesis is: If we change the color of ice cream to something people aren’t used to seeing, it will change the way people perceive the flavor of that ice cream. In student handout 15, we found the independent, dependent, and constant variables. The independent variable is the color of the ice cream. The dependent variable is what flavor the people think the ice cream is. The constant variable is that we are using the same ice cream all day.

3/14/16
Today we established what our experiments procedure will be. This is our procedure:

1. Two different flavors of ice cream will be dyed different colors.
2. Lemon ice cream will be dyed either red or blue and vanilla will be dyed either caramel colored or pink
3. Participants will be given a sample sized taste of each flavor
4. Participants will be asked what flavor they think it it before
5. Participants will taste the ice cream

3/15/16
Today we worked on student handouts 18-20. We discussed what materials are necessary for our experiment. We will need a freezer and a total of 8 buckets of ice cream

3/16/16
Today we had a meeting with our teacher to check on our progress. We were asked if there were any concerns or complications we can think of and we couldn't.

3/17/16
Today we decided how we would collect our data during the psychology fair. We are going to create a Google Form for ourselves to answer questions such as gender, age and what flavor they think it is.

3/21/16
Today we decided what info and pictures we are going to put on our poster. We have to pick out key points from our background studies to show on our poster and also present our hypothesis and how we plan to prove it.

3/22/16
Today we picked out what pictures would go on our poster and printed out and cut out all of the materials that are to go on our poster

3/23/16
Today we made all last touches on our poster for parent night. The parents will come test out our experiments tonight so we can get an idea of how our experiment will work and any changes we need to make.

3/24/16
Today is the day of the psychology fair


3/28/16
The psychology fair went very smoothly and we had more than enough ice cream. We had over 900 responses and people seemed to really enjoy our booth. From what I've seen so far of the results, it seemed that about half the people guessed right and half guessed wrong. Some of the answers were way off and some people got it right away.