Nicholas Durazo
KINE2202 section 002
Lab Report 1
Introduction
The reaction time (RT) of students was measured in the experiment to determine whether light or sound stimulus initiates a quicker response time. The question of whether or not RT was related to movement time (MT) was also challenged. Each student performed two test in random order; one testing the reaction time of a red light stimulus, or visual reaction time (VRT); and the other testing the reaction time of a “beeping” sound stimulus, or auditory reaction time (ART). The student completed the VRT trial by simply receiving the stimulus and pressing a button. The student placing and holding their hand on a button starts the ART trial. Once the student receives the stimulus (beep) they press the adjacent button as fast as they can. The ART trial does not only include the data of the RT, but also the data from the MT. Having previous knowledge that light travels faster than sound; one can predict that VRT is faster than ART. The prediction that MT is independent upon RT can be made with the thought that there are so many opposing variables that could affect the MT of an individual unrelated RT such as old age
Methods
In the experiment, 80 students were randomly separated into groups of 2 to write down the data from the test for the other individual. The VRT was measured by pressing a button once the student had seen the stimulus. The reaction time data would simply show up on the screen once the student completed
If the response time for this experiment by saying the word” now” falls between 100 and 200 milliseconds, I would conclude that
The mole is a convenient unit for analyzing chemical reactions. Avogadro’s number is equal to the mole. The mass of a mole of any compound or element is the mass in grams that corresponds to the molecular formula, also known as the atomic mass. In this experiment, you will observe the reaction of iron nails with a solution of copper (II) chloride and determine the number of moles involved in the reaction. You will determine the number of moles of copper produced in the reaction of iron and copper (II) chloride, determine the number of moles of iron used up in the reaction of iron and copper (II) chloride, determine the ratio of moles of iron to moles of copper, and determine the number of atoms and formula units involved in
1. Form hypothesis: Do you think you will react more quickly to sights or sounds? Explain why.
2. When 2.00 g of NaOH were dissolved in 49.0 g water in a calorimeter at 24.0 ˚C, the temperature of the
In addition to testing both males and females, three different age groups including 16-18 year olds, 21-23 year olds and 47-49 year olds will be have their reaction times assessed. Incorporating a range of individuals from teenagers to middle aged people will allow inferences to be made regarding the effect that age has on reaction time. Across the experiments, two other aspects will be varied including using dominant or non-dominant hands
To first understand the importance of the clinical reaction time test, the physiological pathways involved in reaction time must first be
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 experiment used the same red and green stimuli in each trial instead of other opponent colors such as black and white or blue and yellow. The small sample size studied could have also lead to random variation in the results.
When performing many feats of physical skill, calculating how fast a person can perform the action has become a custom that has gained prominence in recent years. Observing how long it takes a person to perform an action, now known as observing the reaction time, has even gained enough importance to the point that it has even used in some scientific investigations. The purpose of this scientific investigation, for instance, is to test whether or not an outside force, such as music, will affect the reaction time of any given test subject. Whether the change will be a positive one, such as helping
They were able to answer questions such as the reaction between the visual and verbal reactions. The impact in terms of degree of interference was also evident from the results. The source of interference are the study aspects; color and naming. The conflicting color and word stimuli had an impact on the time taken by the subjects to read the given world. The authors argue that this was due to lack of coherence between visual interpretation and the expected verbal reaction. The subject gender had an impact on the results. The females had a better verbal reaction time compared to the males. According to the authors, this could be attributed to how the two genders normally react to color stimuli. Ideally, women usually possess high color stimulus-response
I. Introduction The purpose of this reaction time experiment was to evaluate reaction time in relation to catching a ruler with one hand. The variables we tested this experiment under are as follows: catch with non-dominant indoors, catch with dominant indoors, and catch with non-dominant while outside, then catch with dominant while outside. Our control was to catch with dominant hand while inside. We chose these variables because we believe there will be a distinct difference between our ability to catch with our dominant hand vs. our non-dominant, and with distractions outside, and no distractions inside.
Their hypothesis that stated athletes will have a shorter reaction time when shown an image of the ball they train with was supported in this study. The study included twenty-four participants; fourteen participants played either basketball or soccer and the other ten did not. The participants were shown images and tested their reaction time. They discovered that athletes have a stimulus response binding, which triggers a faster response even when the stimulus is seen in a different context. I asked what they would do different in the experiment, and they stated that they would include more participants. Cody stated that next year he would like to expand the experiment by exploring the exact pathways of the athlete’s vs non-athletes brain pathways for the reaction time with an EEG. I learned that certain images can help shorter one’s reaction time when playing sports. This is a topic that has never crossed my mind, but I found it to be very interesting. It made me curious how Cody Isabel will expand this study next year with the assistance of a
What is seen in the data is that there is not a steady decline in the reaction time when you compare each column to the previous or next respectively. The time increases when comparing Group A to Group B, but not Group B to Group C. The same also applies to Group C to Group D and then a decrease from Group D to Group E. Figure 1 shows a clearer picture of the RT when compared to all of the reaction time. Even though the time decreases in some areas, there is clear increase or RT when looking from the youngest to olderst.
From these results, we see that some subjects were able to mentally rotate an image faster than others, and that this process could take more than 30 milliseconds to complete. Our results demonstrate that participants were more than just accurate when making a judgment about the nature of mental representation of an image; they were also unique in their abilities in that each participant was capable of completing a different number of trials. Reaction time also varied among individuals in both same-data (figure 3) and mirror-date (figure 4). The data from the experiment provided supporting evidence for our hypothesis, which states that reaction time would increase as a function of the angle of rotation for which the three-dimensional
To find out what happens to a subject’s reaction time when different independent variables are applied.