Help!! What is a good experiment for an experimental psychology class in college?
My roomate and i are trying to come up with an experiment for our experimental psychology class in college. We have to conduct the experiment with participants so people are involved and it needs to be ethical. we have been trying to come up with something for a while now but cant get any good ideas. anyone have any?
littlepurpledragon77 said,
Wrote on March 11, 2010 @ 1:30 am
Read up on Pavlov and conditioning.
r_leutwiler said,
Wrote on March 11, 2010 @ 1:49 am
I am from St. Louis, Mo. Now living near Hartford, Conn. but have a wife back in Puerto Rico. I thought I knew a lot about communication between people of different backgrounds but after almost 25 years of marriage everything went to hell.
The point is that it would be interesting to form pairs of people from very different backgrounds and chart how they get along. You could mix a rich black with a poor Native American, for example; and kids from public schools with kids from private schools, athletes with musicians, etc. (Is it OK to say “Native American” now?)
You could set up scales along the lines of communication with understanding, communication with mis-understanding, emotional reactions or lack of reactions, areas of contention, areas of agreement, common interests and so on.
Terry C said,
Wrote on March 11, 2010 @ 2:34 am
Project Abstract
As age expectancy increases and technological advances slow the aging process, there seems to be differences among how men and women perceive age. With a growing population of elderly, further investigation needs to be addressed in order to fight negative aging stereotypes. In this qualitative and quantitative study, men and women were interviewed. show differences in the way different gender perceives age.
laughter_every_day said,
Wrote on March 11, 2010 @ 3:14 am
There are some fun experiments in eye-witness observation. Show a 5 or 10 minute movie and then ask questions and record the answers. Have one of the questions be specious. For example, if there is no red car in the movie, ask something like “did the red car or the white car stop at the stop sign?” Later, ask people how many red cars they saw. See if, by asing questions, you can create memories. If you are just observing behavior, and no affecting it, you can always figure out what lines people get into at the toll booth or the bank or something like that. Have fun.