Nic,+Jay,+Eric+K

How pressure effects people's behavior
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Research Plan

This experiment is how pressure effects a person's behavior and reaction. We will go around and ask people one of two things: "We will count to three and you must answer this math question." or "We will give you a really easy math question, just relax and solve the question." For the three second problem, we will count to three very loudly, so it will instill pressure onto them. We will mark the results if they were able to answer the question or not. On the other hand, for the other question, we will tell them that the question is really easy and show them the question very slowly so they have the time to think. It will show how if not under pressure, the person will be relaxed and will answer the question in time. This will show how even the most intelligent can falter when under pressure. We plan to ask about 3-5 people each for both questions. The people questioned may be students or even random strangers from preteen and over. School: During lunch or right after lunch when people are usually amongst friends. Mall (Lotte, Emart) /Streets, school: Saturday, time: 1:00 ~ 3:00 where people are most active Advantage in School : it's easy to get the data and to film the students. Not much misunderstanding; may just think of it as a project Disadvantage: If it's people we already know, there might not be any results Advantage in Public: Because the people we film are unknown to us, they may show better results than students have Disadvantage: The people we experiment might misunderstand our motives and not show the desired results

Hypothesis The people who we put under pressure will probably be too confused or surprised to answer the question. Also, under pressure, they will probably not be able to function the math equation in their heads and will give either wrong or will be too late. On the other hand, we believe that the people given the other question will be relaxed enough to realize how easy the question is and answer the question accordingly.

Communication When we first talked in Skype, I felt like I was talking to someone in KIS or someone I already knew. It was really easy to talk to Nic so I think Skype will be a good communication device. Also, Eric has already added Nic to his facebook so if skype has a problem, we can talk to each other through facebook. I think it will be nice if we talk at least once a week to see how things are going with the project.

Potential Problems The people we do not tell about us filming may feel very uncomfortable and start questioning us of our actions. They might misunderstand our motives.

Jay G. Article Review

(Scott Endsley) Since this is a very observant study, it seems to me that you should make a list of things to specifically look for in the groups. Your hypothesis needs to cover these specific aspects in order to see how they match up with the actual results. Possible ideas would be to look for nervous mannerisms, posture, participation, seriousness, etc.

Feedback (Hannah): I think that you have to ask people and their feelings on being asked some of these questions before doing so, along with the filming process as like you're testing people may not feel comfortable or like that, or even have the time to just answer questions.Think maybe a little more about how you really are going to test this and what kind of people, such as age and gender as well maybe.

Make sure that you keep you testing to a contained age group, a wide variety of ages could skew your results. Nick

KEYNOTE Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxuekbeTlqo