Helaina+T

=Determining Whether Or Not Scenery Affects Fear= Helaina T. 2011-2012

__Abstract__
The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether or not scenery affected the heart rate of a person or how scared the person was after.. The purpose was to determine if a person was more scared in a dark closet or a closet while the lights were on. The hypothesis of the experiment was that the people in the experiment would be more feared after being scared in the dark closet than when the lights were on. To see if the hypothesis was correct first, the heart rate of the students would be taken while the lights were on. After the lights would be turned off and the student would be scared, that data would be collected. The student would then be scared in the same closet while the lights were on. The results of the experiment show that the students were usually more scared in the dark than in the closet while the lights were on. The heart rate of the students increased when scared in the dark and decreased when the lights were on, from the original pulse. The second experiment resulted in the sugar affecting the male’s and female’s heart rate. In the experiment shows that the heart rate mostly differed from the results of the first experiment.

__Experimental Improvements and Future Experiments__
Some experimental improvements that can be made are picking one standard method to scare the students. Also, an improvement could be to use other methods or tools to measure the person’s heart rate. Some future experiments that can be conducted are to see if the gender of a person affects how scared they get or to determine whether or not age affects how scared people get. Some major interesting facts about the experiment were that when the students were scared in the dark the heart rate of the students went up and when the students were scared while the lights were on; the heart rate of the students went down most of the time. One major result from the experiment shows that the fifth male had an original heart rate of 47 bpm and then when the male was scared in the dark, his heart rate dramatically increased to 238 bpm.

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