Wednesday, May 6, 2009
In Psychology Kenzie and I are partners for our final, which is a social psyche project. There are not many requirements, and the topic is completely optional to us. We discussed dancing obnoxiously in the middle of the mall to see strangers reactions, we thought about freezing in the middle of a busy area, and finally we came up with a slight less embarrassing idea. We are making a test that surveys levels/ideals of prejudice among high schools across Indianapolis. We are going to create 5 different characters and list 7 characteristics of each but not give their race, sexuality, gender, occupation, hometown, or education level. Then the test taker will have to guess each one of the 6 qualities we didn't give. We want to find out what exactly are "give away" qualities and also if different schools extend different results or if midwestern Indiana teenagers are roughly the same when it comes to stereotyping. I am not 100% sure that this will accurately work, simply because knowing that you are taking a test, and it will probably be obvious that it is for a psychology class, students are going to be less likely to be honest and open about their prejudices. Hopefully, we are able to misrepresent it as a test that isn't testing exactly stereotyping, but we haven't really come up with any successful ideas yet.
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Cool idea. But, I would have much rather seen you and kenzie start a random dance routine in the middle of a public place, but your racial test is cool too. Abby V. is my partner for this project and we are going to go to a mall and ask people questions and get really close to their faces. It will test were the personal bubble boundary is.
I like our idea. I hope that it works because I do not want to get a bad grade considering this is our final. Mr. Morrison did seem to really like it though so I am guessing we are going to get an A+....maybe. Sammie your project sounds cool to but I have a feeling that you and Abby v. are going to start laughing when you get that close to random peoples faces.
Btw: what if they have awful breath? that would suck.
Bailey--
I think that sounds like a really cool final!! I also think that you and Sammie have come up with a really good idea. The results you get would be very interesting to see. Good luck in making the test and testing it out!
-Erin
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