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Karina Granadeno

Kalyn Schofield

 

Case #1 [ACTING TIMES]

Person #1                                                                                                                            Person#2

1.       225                                                                                                         1. 279

2.       223                                                                                                         2. 270

3.       346                                                                                                         3. 266

Average: 264 milliseconds                                    Average: 271 milliseconds

Standard Deviation: 58 milliseconds                 Standard Deviation: 6 milliseconds

Thinking Time: 91                                                     Thinking Time: 83

 

Case #2 [THINKING & ACTING]

Person #1                                                                                                                            Person #2

1. 431                                                                                                                    1. 275

2. 311                                                                                                                    2. 491

3. 325                                                                                                                    3. 297

Average: 355 milliseconds                                            Average: 354 milliseconds

Standard Deviation: 54 milliseconds                         Standard Deviation: 98 milliseconds

Reading Time:   342                                                         Reading Time: 252

 

Case #3 [READING, THINKING, & ACTING]

Person #1                                                                                                                            Person #2

1. 733                                                                                                                    1.  441

2. 629                                                                                                                    2. 584

3. 730                                                                                                                    3. 794

Average: 697 milliseconds                                                                            Average: 606 milliseconds

Standard Deviation: 49 milliseconds                                                         Standard Deviation: 145 milliseconds

Negating: -144                                                                                   Negate: 891

 

Case #4 [READ, THINK-NEGATE, & ACT]

Person #1                                                                                                            Person #2

1. 657                                                                                                                    1. 1230

2. 558                                                                                                                   2. 1030

3. 446                                                                                                                    3. 2233

Average: 553 milliseconds                                                                            Average: 1497 milliseconds

Standard Deviation: 87 milliseconds                                                         Standard Deviation: 527 milliseconds

 

Teacher’s Numbers:

Person #1                                                            Person #2

Acting: 264                                                          Acting: 271                         

Thinking: 91                                                        Thinking: 83

Reading: 342                                                      Reading: 252

Negating: -144                                                   Negating: -606

 

HYPOTHESIS: To test the idea that people reach an optimum level of efficiency even when a distraction is present. We think that constantly being exposed to a distraction will at some point stop significantly affect the reaction times.

CASE #1 [ACTING]                                                                                                           CASE#2 [THINKING & ACTING]

Person #1                                                                                                                            Person #2

1. 321                                                                                                                                    1. 505

2. 217                                                                                                                                    2. 393

3. 234                                                                                                                                    3. 305

4. 441                                                                                                                                    4. 341

5. 334                                                                                                                                    5. 435

6. 654                                                                                                                                    6. 318

7. 338                                                                                                                                    7. 307

8. 368                                                                                                                                    8. 312

9. 373                                                                                                                                    9. 362

10. 329                                                                                                                                  10. 293

Average: 360 milliseconds                                                            Average: 357 milliseconds

Standard Deviation: 116 milliseconds                                      Standard Deviation: 66 milliseconds

 

 

Person #1                                                                                                           

ACTING (without distraction): Avg: 264

ACTING (with distraction): Avg: 360

THINKING & ACTING (without distraction): Avg: 354

THINKING & ACTING (with distraction): Avg: 357

CASE #3 [READING, THINKING & ACTING]                                                            CASE#4 [THINK-NEGATE]

Person #1                                                                                                                            Person #2

1. 487                                                                                                                                    1. 903

2. 598                                                                                                                                    2. 1143

3. 800                                                                                                                                    3. 1745

4. 719                                                                                                                                    4. 972

5. 550                                                                                                                                    5. 842

Average: 630 milliseconds                                                            Average: 1121 milliseconds

Standard Deviation: 114 milliseconds                                      Standard Deviation: 328 milliseconds

 

 

Person #1                                                                                                           

READING THINKING ACTING (without distraction): Avg: 697 milliseconds

READING THINKING ACTING (with distraction): Avg: 630 milliseconds

THINK-NEGATE  (without distraction): Avg: 1497

THINK-NEGATE (with distraction): Avg: 1121

 

 

 

Conclusions: For this experiment we wanted to test the idea that people reach an optimum level of efficiency (average reaction time ) even when a distraction is present. We thought that consistently being exposed to a distraction will at some point stop a person’s significant change in their reaction times. For our distraction we used hand motions in front of the computer screen and compared it to our original experiment data from when we first took the tests. Our experiments have shown us that there isn’t one way to consistently distract a person since our times varied for every trail. However, our average reaction time consistently became slower with distractions compared to our original non-distracter data we also noticed that each of our standard deviation range for each experiment was always different for each person. This meant that each person did have their own individual average level of proficiency that fluctuated according to the experiment. From our data we have drawn conclusions that it’s possible for the brain to adapt and reason out distractions which causing some people to react faster or slower depending on the given distraction at the time. It also varies according to the task, for example, hand motions affect your reaction time just like avoiding the many distractions present when driving. This would make sense since all distractions don’t carry the same severity. In life there are many distractions both great and small which can and do affect the reaction times of people.