Experiment: The Weirdness Of Two Blue Boxes

One of the three possible errors that could have occurred during our experiment was the improper use of the balance. As we were trying to measure the mass for each of the light and heavy pennies the scale needed to be zeroed every time. At one point, we accidently didn’t zero out the scale and had to take in account that the one or more of light pennies we measured weighed more than the others because we forgot to zero out the scale beforehand. For example, we measured a light penny with the year 1984, and measured it to be around 2.544 grams, only problem was we forgot to zero out the scale. When we measured it again it came out to be around 2.506 grams or less. Another factor is when we took the pennies off we tried to zero the scale immediately, which either caused the machine to not zero at all or cause the next penny measurement to be off. The procedure should be modified to address that the scale must be zeroed out before and after any light or heavy pennies are measured to get accurate results. The procedure also should address the need for accurate measurements and should advise the experimenter to remeasure the same light and heavy pennies again to check for any measurement errors. Another possible error that could have occurred during our experiment is after the first trial the wet pennies affected the mass and the outcome of our second trial results. During our first trial of the light pennies we had a volume water displacement of 5.1 ml, but on the second

In my experiment, I compared if the side of a penny affected how many drops of water it can hold. I took 2 pennies, one on the head and one on the tails. I took a dropper and filled it with water. I then dropped the water onto the penny and counted how many drops of water it could hold until the water went on the paper towel. My hypothesis was that the tail side of the penny could hold more water, and it did. According to my data, the tail side average was about 1 whole drop away from the head average. This means that the tail side could hold more water. The exact average of the head side on the penny was 23 drops. The average of the tail side of the penny is 24.72727273 drops. That was super close. Although I made sure my hand was the same

The participants seated themselves around a table, these confederates were not known to each other, and most important concept of this experiment relied on the fact all of the participants were working together, but for one. They took turns in a fixed order to call out publicly which of three comparison lines was the same length as a standard line on the left card. In reality only one person was a naive participant who answered second to last, the rest were experimental confederates instructed to give erroneous responses.

The influence of group pressure will affect individuals’ estimates of the number of ginger granules in a glass jar. The estimate of the individual will change after a group decision to lie closer to the figure of the group.

I ran an experiment with Alex and Kyriece, both having to do with their level of understanding conservation of mass. Conservation of mass is a test that helps to see if a child is in a preoperational phase, or in concrete phase of developing. The most famous test is placing two lines of an equal number coins in front of a child. The lines need to be made of the same size coins and must be arranged to be the same length. Then ask the child if one line has more coins in the line, or if they had the same amount. Then stretch the second line of coins to make the line longer, but without adding any more coins. Then ask which line has more coins, the first line, that has the original length, or the second line, that has been stretched out to be longer. I ran this coin conservation test with my mentees, and the results were astounding. I placed the two lines of Connect Four

If there are post and pre 1982 pennies in a closed container, then there are 6 pre-pennies and 4 post pennies because they are different masses and the container feels uneven. This hypothesis was incorrect because after performing our experiment we found that there were actually 8 pre-pennies and 2 post pennies.We came to this conclusion by massing all our variables and using this equation: Total Mass= (X x mass of one pre-penny )+((10-X)x mass of one post penny) . The coins were differed in their amounts of zinc and copper. Because the copper is heavier the more of it you have the heavier the coin.

Forty participants watched a short film clip about student revolution. After, the participants answered some questions about it. Half of the participants were asked if the leader of four demonstrates was a male and the other half of the participants if the leader of twelve demonstrates was a male. One week later, both groups were asked new questions about the film but they did not have the chance to watch it again. One of the questions asked was about how many demonstrates were in the film, and the results were higher on the group that it was presupposed to have 12 demonstrators. It can be concluded that a wording of one question can alter the memory regarding an

The purpose of this experiment is to conduct what happens to gummy bears when we put them into different liquids. When we were done we gathered data and saw that the gummy bears ended up with different textures and sizes. There were only some minor differences. For water after a day, the length changed, the width, height, and mass. For salt water only the mass changed, before it was 2.6 and after it was 1.5 grams. The next liquid is sugar water, and for that liquid all the of the data changed. The length was 3 cm before, after it was 3.5 cm. The width of the gummy bear was 3 cm before, after it was 1 cm, and after it was 1.5 The height was 2 cm, and changed to 1 cm. Lastly is the mass, it was 2.6 and the after it changed to 5.1. The

Test 1: Water from one standard beaker is poured into the taller and narrower beaker and the child is asked to determine if the beakers have the same amount of water.

Angelina is five years old. For the first test Angelina said the smaller container had more water in it, “because the waters way up here (pointing to the smaller container) but it’s down her in the other one (pointing to the wider container)”. The second experiment she caid the flattened playdough had more because “it’s a big circle”. The third experiment Angelina said that both the stack and the row had the same amount “because 5 and 5”. It surprised me that she made sure to count both sections unlike Kyng who only counted the row. The fourth and last test Angelina said the string that was balled “because if you stretch it out it's the biggest one”. Her response to this question surprised me because I assumed that she would answer that the string that was already stretched out would be longer because it is visibly longer at that moment. When I asked Angelina, “Why does the sunshine” she responded, “When the sun goes up that means it’s time to wake up.” When I asked her, “Why is there snow?” she responded, “because when it’s Christmas sometimes snow comes out”. The third question Angelina did believe that I could see her when she closed her eyes. This also did not surprise me because I have had conversations before we started the experiment she had squinted her eyes and we were talking about what we could see and what she could see, so I assumed that she would have that answer. When I asked her “how many

Kenneth Maples took part in a practice session, and then afterwards, the actual test session in which there was a screen that displayed a cube in the center of it. In the practice session, the participant was to think of certain thoughts to make the cube on the screen move in certain ways. According to Maples, he was to associate those certain thoughts with certain movements. For example, to make the cube stay still in the center of the screen, Maples thought of a brick wall.

Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” stirred controversy due to the bizarre nature of the music video. In the video, religious icons and the KKK appeared which angered Catholics. Yet, “Heart Shaped Box” is one of the most successful songs from Nirvana. Usually when artists or authors release workpieces that social identities as taboo, conversations reaching from coast to coast become debates of the decade. In this scenario, Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the hotspot for discussing the brutality of slavery and the usage of the prohibited “n-word”. Despite that, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic novel. However, the extent of using the “n-word” is becoming a problem teaching and discomfort for the education system.

I show both boys a colorful bowl of marbles, then I ask Jon to count out 20 marbles and place them in a short, chubby cup as Josh watches. I then have Jon count out 20 more marbles and put them in a second short, chubby cup. Now, both boys can see the 20 marbles in the cup. I ask Josh to put them side by side. I ask, “Josh do they look like they have the same amount in each cup?” He replies, “yes”.

For this experiment I ended up knocking on people’s doors in my dorm and asked them to look at printed money pictures and decide which one looks like the right size of money. Bruner and Goodman hypothesis that the small bill most people would guess correct, which bill was right and the big bill people would guess the wrong answer. I found Bruner and Goodman’s hypothesis was correct because the dollar bill there was 3 out of 5 people that guessed it right. From the hundred-dollar bill only 1 out of the 5 people that I asked answered correct.

Isaac was able to agree on each task that initially all the quantities were the same, but was easily influenced once the pennies were moved, the water was placed into a different size glass and the clay was rolled into a different size shape. He thought the row of pennies that was spread out had more pennies, the glass that was taller had more water and the clay that was rolled out had more clay. When asked why he thought there was more, he used concrete physical descriptions about what he saw such as the glass was "taller" or of a different "size" and that the clay was "longer". This demonstrated Isaac's inability to conserve and that he is indeed in the preoperational stage, as Piaget suggests. When presented with the last task, Isaac first said he "didn't know" and then once the experimenter encouraged him