Motivational stress

[JohnBRockerf]

I came up with some new ideas for my science project and I just wanted to get some opinions on it for my project I'm kind of having a hard time naming it but this is what it involves I plan to have 5 subjects 4 of my associates and myself, 2 of the subjects will be asked to do 10 questions from english, 10 from science, and 10 from math all within 15 minutes with the reward being 20$ for whoever can finish the most and get the higher score but all the while being oblivious of the time, my other two subjects will do the same thing only without an reward but their motivation will come from a timer i will set on the table their doing their work on so they will basically try to beat the clock, and finally myself I will try to get the highest score possible on the test just for a personal best with a teacher monitoring me and telling me when time is up and the purpose of this will be to measure their pulses and figure out which causes the highest level of stress on the subjects if you know of any way i can improve this I will greatly appreciate it.

[ecoli]

Will the people taking the test be able to see each other? How would you take that variable into account? How many times are you repeating the experiment? With how many different kinds of people (remember the larger and more diverse your test bank, the more variables that can get cancelled out)?

 

Sounds like an interesting project, let us know how the results turn out.

[AlbatrosKill]

I think if you had someone else take the test to do their best with no motivation instead of taking it yourself it would be more accurate.

[ecoli]

I think if you had someone else take the test to do their best with no motivation instead of taking it yourself it would be more accurate.

 

I think he meant he wanted to see how he would do, not part of the experiment.

 

But either way, I think Albatroskill is right. This would be a good control. You should have a third group that takes the test without any outside motavation (with two people, though... remember you don't want to introduce variables)

[Glider]

When you come to write it up, use paragraphs and punctuation.