Week 16

AP Psychology Students: Whose experiment presentation did you find the most fascinating? Why? If you could do yours again, what would you change? What was most difficult and most rewarding about yours? And begin reviewing for your Midterm Exam. Rewrite ALL your previous FRQs with the correct answers. Redo ALL previous MCs what is the correct answer?, and why did I get it wrong? Plus redo ALL your notes following the 3-source-protocol. And here's a review sheet for organizing some of the content. Download Sem.Review. After completing these four steps, see me for more review ideas.

Comments

[Wendy]

The experiment presentation that I found most fascinating was Jenny’s presentation. This is because the method of rewarding kids with candy after they do something well is very common, so one would think that they are correlated, but this experiment gives us another perspective to think about because it proves the opposite. It gives us the insight that maybe glucose isn’t the best for children’s learning abilities.

If I could do my experiment again, it would be double-blinded to eliminate the self-fulfilling prophecy. I would also have more trials so my experiment could be more reliable, maybe this would also lessen the p value and lessen the probability that the experiment is due to chance so it could be statistically significant. The most difficult part was trying to understand the standard deviation, correlation coefficient, and the p value because I have not worked with them before so at first it was hard trying to understand what they are for. The most rewarding part was the experimentation went well and I got to prove what I had originally wanted to prove.

[pob]

The experiment presentation that I find the most fascinating is J. Before J conducted his experiment I think that we should drink coffee to help us study for test it would help us to be more alert to encode stuff. After the experiment I now realize that coffee doesn’t help us in study at all. If I could do my experiment again I would like to change my statistical significance and explain better about the standard deviation. I miss understand that between the number -.5 and .5 is not due to chance but really its due to chance and that screw up all my experiment. I didn’t do a graph on the PowerPoint (I doesn’t know how to do it) so I didn’t really explain well on the standard deviation. The most difficult part in my experiment is to convince the subject to sit down and watch the 25 minutes anime. The most rewarding in my experiment is that if I was right I could prove that study a language take times. Time is directly proportional to what you learn.

[Zen]

I think that J experiment presentation find me the most fascinating because now I know that caffeine doesn’t make us able to remember more words. At first I was preparing to drink coffee because I think that caffeine make us more alert so before I start studying my test I was thinking to drink coffee to remember better but J experiment prove my thinking wrong! If I could do my experiment again I want to change my wrong data that Mr Paul tell me in class and I just realize my error during my presentation. My most difficult is making people do what I wanted them to do because most of the people were lazy and embarrass to do thirty jumping jacks for my experiment. My most rewarding is that my experiment is very easy to do if my participant did exactly what I wanted them to do.

[Beam]

The experiment presentation that I find the most fascinating is Vivienne because if it is true it could really help me develop a new way of studying for my exams. If I could do mine again I would do more trials and use three age group to make my data more accurate. The most difficult thing about my experiment is to get willing participants for the experiment. The rewarding thing about my experiment is that if I was right I could really improve my grade by following my results.

[J]

The experiment presentation that I find the most fascinating is Vivienne. That’s because I can use experiment in real life. Which this experiment could help me with my test preparation. I would know that which color is best suit for learning. So I can learn faster. As well as, her method of sticking color paper on the wall to make an atmosphere other than lets the experiment stare at it normally interest me. This is very fascinating ideas which I would like to do in my future. If I could redo my experiment I would like to do my experiment in a bigger scale which will greatly increase my graph curve and others in my experiment. So that we could look at it more clearly and get a better result than my previous one. As well as, solve my problems and confounding variables which are the day of doing experiment and the vocabularies which is not the same level. So that I would bring up a better results for my graph. The most difficult things that I found in this experiment are the correlation coefficient graph and during my experiment time. That’s because correlation coefficient is the part where I doesn’t understand the most ,so I use few our understanding it. While during my experiment, I need to search for my experimenter because I did not use random samples. On the other hand, the most rewarding part are standard deviation and statistical significance. That’s because I deeply understand what this two stand for.

[Vivienne Sung]

Out of the experiment presentation showed in class, I found J’s topic the most fascinating. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a freshman to keep myself awake from massive amount of school works. However, I stop consuming caffeine in my junior year because coffee no longer helps to keep me awake through the night. Therefore, I’m interested in J’s experiment because I wondered if caffeine would make a difference on our performance of chucking and recalling memories. If I could do my science fair product again, I would change my control group into participants place only in green colored learning circumstance because in my experiment this time it shows that participants placed in green-colored room performed better. And my experimental group participants would be placed in all colors room. Then I would check to see if participants in green colored room will still have the best performance (accomplished the four mazes faster). Throughout the process of accomplishing my project, I find graphing the standard deviation bell curve is the hardest because I had no clue how can I graph it on excel. Overall, this psychology science fair is a success even though my hypothesis was incorrect. It was interesting to find out that green-colored class room did make an effect on student’s performance.

[Jenny]

THIS IS THE REAL ONE.

The experiment presentation that I find the most fascinating is Joe’s because his explanation of most of the topics are very clear. It shows that he took a lot of time in order to get all the information combined together. He gave lot of details for each of the things he is talking about. For example, he gave us a descriptive background research so that we really have some basic knowledge to apply with the experiment he is making. If I can do the presentation again, I will revise all the mistakes I have make. For example, how I measure the trial 3 of the experimental group have to be change. I will give a detailed explanation for everything so that it will be clearer for the others to understand. I will also revise the background research that I have problems with. The most difficult part about my presentation is the standard deviation, correlation coefficient, and statistical significance part. This is my first time I am using these math tools and I don’t really understand how useful each tools is. I have a difficult time working with these 3 tools. The most rewarding part is that I did three trials for the experimental and controlled group so this is actually a great proof for me having a reliable experiment.

[Jenny]

The experiment presentation that I find the most fascinating is Joe’s because his explanation of the most of the topics are very clear. It shows that he took a lot of time in order to get all the information combined together. He gave lot of details for each of the things he is talking about. If can do the presentation again, I will revise all the mistakes I have make. For example, how I measure the trial 3 of the experimental group have to be change. I will give a detail explanation for everything so that it will be clearer for the others to understand. The most difficult about mine is the standard deviation, correlation coefficient, and statistical significance. This is my first time using these math tools and I don’t really understand how useful each tools is. I have a difficult time working with these 3 tools. The most rewarding is that I did three trials for the experimental and controlled group so this is actually a great proof for me having a reliable experiment.

[Dino]

The experiment I found most fascinating is Jenny's. This is because it is, in my opinion, the most-organized and clear. Honestly speaking, none of the topics were interesting. I did not find myself fascinated with any of the projects. Still, I found Jenny's to be the most interesting and enjoyable. Her topic was interesting to show how adolescents like could still be easily taught from operant conditioning, just like a cute little puppy.

If I could do my experiment again, I would have chosen an entirely different topic that would be easier to do. My experiment was based on time (elapse time before 12.00), so it is inconvenient to conduct. As for the presentation, there are a bunch of stuff that I wish I could change. For a start, I would have studied to understand the concepts and importance of statistical significance, standard deviation, and correlation coefficients. My understanding of the stuff was unsatisfactory. I would also change my conclusion. I want to add more problems so that people would be able to see how other psychologists and scientists could use my experiment to start other experiments. I did not have a full understanding about the concepts of a scientific experiment, and should have better prepared myself. I would say that the most difficult part of my experiment was the data analysis. I messed up hard on my standard deviation, statistical significance, and conclusion. The most rewarding part was the explanation of the experimental procedure and background research. It was the smoothest part of my experiment.