The Animals And Non Gamers

This experiment was conducted by surveying ninety-six people, 48 males and 48 females, to complete a short survey. The survey asked them if they were color blind and whether they were male or female. They were then given five color cards (blue, green, pink, purple and yellow) and ordered the sample colors from their favorite to least favorite on a scale of 1-5.

In experiment 1, participants were instructed to press a key to determine if the stimulus was red, blue, yellow, or green. On the second half of the experiment, the stimulus appeared in grey with only one colored letter which was positioned randomly. Error rates for the experiment were below 2.5% for each condition, which is quite low. Experiment 2 was the same as experiment 1 except that there were 114 data collections instead of 288 and there were 36 practice trials instead of 72. According to experiment 1 and 2 it is suggested that the effect of

The same number of words and their length were the same in both conditions. The same colour shades and the order they were used, as well as how many times each word was presented, to negate practice effects, was equal in both conditions. The order of the conditions was alternated consecutively, participant one starting with condition one and then participant two starting with condition two and so on, again to negate any practice effects.

The same color mice were placed in an inland habitat but this time the brown mice were the control and the white mice were the experimental. The test showed that 75% of white mice were attacked, while 25% of brown mice were attacked. Because the white mice did not

The current study had 23 participants from Miami University took part in this experiment. Throughout the study, 2 participants were excluded from analyses, because they failed to follow task instructions or failed to complete the entire experiment. This left a final sample of 21 participants (16 female, 4 male, 1 do not wish to disclose). The mean age was 21.20 years (SD = 7.06). Most of the participants were white (n = 16) while the rest included Asian, Black/African American, and Bi- or Multiracial (n = 5). In addition, in the demographic section of the survey, participants answered their academic standing: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or other. The majority of the participants were juniors (n = 9) closely followed by

Design A repeated measures design was used. Each variable exhibited one of 3 levels of congruence. Congruent variables consisted of words which matched both in semantic meaning and font colour, Control variables had semantic meanings unrelated to their colour (for example the word "house" presented in blue), and incongruent variables had semantic meanings which contrasted with the colour in which they were displayed (for example the word "blue" displayed in the colour red). 16 variables of each type were presented to each of the 20 participants tested. Each level of congruence was randomly distributed throughout the test. Reaction times were measured for each participant for each stimulus, as related to the congruence of each stimulus responded to.

As stated in the study “video gamers outperformed non-gamers in the dual-task situation ts(18)> 3.205, ps<.01,” (***). Furthermore, the gamers outperformed nongamers on the task switching therefore. Interesting enough, there was no significant difference in single-task performance between the two groups. While these findings seem promising, there is no way to say that the differences in dual-task and task-switching performances were caused by video game play. Therefore, the investigators decided to perform another experiment. The purpose of the experiment was to see if action video games are responsible for the difference in performance on these tests. The researchers picked two video games for the experiment: Medal of Honor and Tetris. Medal of Honor is an action video game and Tetris is a puzzle game. It was hypothesized that playing Medal of Honor would create improvements in the dual-task and task-switching tests while Tetris would not create an improvement. In the between subjects experiment, 32 college students were randomly separated into three groups, 10 in the Medal of Honors group, 10 in the Tetris group, and 12 in the control group, whom were not exposed to any video games. The experiment consisted of a pretest, conditioning trials, and a posttest. During the pretest, all three groups were took the dual-task and the task-switching tests. After the tests, the two experimental groups practiced their respective video games in 15 one-hour sessions over four weeks. The control group did not practice either video game. Finally, the three groups retook the two tests, and the difference in performance was found. The independent variable of the experiment was video game, with the levels being Medal of Honor, Tetris, and no game. The dependent variable was change in performance from pretest to

In conclusion the experiment was successful since it supported the aim of the experiment and it was consitance ing what Stroop find in his inteference experiment which was that it took longer time for participants to identify the color of the word stimuli since the participants are more familiar with the identification of color boxes and its much more easier than identifying word stimuli since there schemas do not recognize as quickly as it does with just naming colors. However i would do this experiment again but instead i would associate the time it takes identifying colors of boxes and word stimuli if the participant had a 3.5 gpa or avove and the time it took a participant to identify color boxes and the color word stimuli if the participant

For this experiment, I will randomly choose 48 children, which I will divide it in two groups of 24 children and in each one will be 12 boys and 12 girls. The experimental group (24 children) will be the one watching the 30 minutes video of Teenage Mutant Ninja for 5 consecutive days while the control group (24 children) will be the one watching a 30 minute video with minimum or if possible no high levels of action. I will choose them from a same demographic area and will conduct a previous survey to the

(3) So, the goal of this experiment is to see whether there is a discrimination

Participants: To conduct this experiment fifty-two college students will be selected. A sample test will be given out before any final decisions are made on who will partake in this study. This sample test will insure that the participants’ level of intelligence are similar. Twenty-six students, men and women, will make up the experimental group, and twenty-six will make up the control group. In each group there will be thirteen men, and thirteen women, to make the twenty-six. Each group member is placed in a certain group based on his/her sample test score.

Evidence suggests that there is a positive effect when people have a dog in their lives. No matter if it is for therapy, depression, anxiety, loneliness, or just because you love animals, there is a high chance that the dog will put you in a better mood than you were before. The studies were done on people that enjoy animals or do not mind them, otherwise there would not be a positive effect in your mood. I am doing random assignment, so a problem would be having students do the experiment even though they are not a fan of dogs. The purpose of this study is to prove that animals can be positive to your mood even if you are not interacting with them like in most studies. No matter if you are playing with a dog, viewing a picture of

Psychology college students attending the University of California, Los Angeles were asked to complete this experiment as a course requirement. The sample size was twenty-one students. When conducting the experiment, we did not ask if the students had any disabilities such as color blindness or blindness. Every student just went through with the experiment without any questions being asked. All participants were asked to be the experimenter and the subject of the study.

Seventy five students were recruited from a large southeastern University to participate in the experimental study. Twenty nine were male (39%) and forty six were female (61%). The age of the sample ranged from 17 to 29 years with a mean age of 22 (SD = 2.56). This included 9% Caucasian participants (n = 7), 69% Hispanic American participants (n = 52), 1% Native American participants (n = 1), 13% African American participants (n = 10), 2% Asian American participants (n = 2). The remaining three participants did not report their ethnicity (4%).

People as animals have instinctive tendencies to care for themselves first no matter how narcissistic an ideal that may seem to be it is by all means a logical defense and mechanism for self preservation. Defiance of this principle, however, can be seen often when humans or animals put themselves on the line to protect a family member or loved one, but what makes an individual more likely to help a relative than a random person in need? Nearly everybody at some point in their life will care about another person aside from the sociopathic few. For most people their first encounter with a loving bond comes from their childhood household; wherein, they are born with and constantly encounter one or two parents that will go to great lengths to help them. This instills people with an idea of common family values such as your obligation and desire to help those you're biologically close with. People make friends and establish a hierarchy of peoples importance almost assigning value to the lives of others based upon their relation putting "family first". What aspect of the human psyche makes this evaluation of people’s value morally sound? This behavior isn’t only exhibited in humans either. There are some animals that will stick to groups comprised of their blood relatives while others will form packs of trustworthy individuals regardless of relation. In my opinion it's the alteration of our definition of family and expanding it to encompass everyone that we care about and holding all of these people in the same regard.