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Cricket Personality Lab

Cricket Personality Lab. Question. Cricket Personality Lab. Cricket Personality Lab. Question? Do crickets show personality?. Am I bold?. Cricket Personality Lab. Hypothesis. Cricket Personality Lab. Hypothesis Crickets do show personality. I am bold!!!. Cricket Personality Lab.

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Cricket Personality Lab

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  1. Cricket Personality Lab

  2. Question Cricket Personality Lab

  3. Cricket Personality Lab • Question? • Do crickets show personality? Am I bold?

  4. Cricket Personality Lab • Hypothesis

  5. Cricket Personality Lab • Hypothesis • Crickets do show personality I am bold!!!

  6. Cricket Personality Lab • How are we going to test boldness in crickets?

  7. Cricket Personality Lab • How are we going to test boldness in crickets? • See how close they get to a predator!

  8. Cricket Personality Lab • Predictions • If crickets do show the boldness personality, what do we expect?

  9. Cricket Personality Lab • Predictions • Consistent How do you know I am bold? I act consistently

  10. Cricket Personality Lab • Predictions • Different from others How do you know I am bold? I act differently from that guy

  11. Cricket Personality Lab Experiment Time!

  12. Cricket Personality Lab Lab directions: -Describe characteristics of crickets so you can tell them apart Males vs. Females Coloration Size Wing size/shape

  13. Cricket Personality Lab Lab directions: -Place cricket in middle of container

  14. Cricket Personality Lab Lab directions: -Measure how far the cricket is from the spider after 10 seconds and 20 seconds (IN CENTIMETERS).

  15. Cricket Personality Lab Lab directions: -Do this for every cricket 3 times. Rotating every cricket

  16. Cricket Personality Lab Lab setup: 1 Home Container- holds crickets when not in trial 1 Test Container-where your trials take place 1 Fake Spider- placed at one end of the test container 1 Ruler- measure how far away the cricket is from the spider

  17. Cricket Personality Lab Lab directions: -You are going to be assigned a task • Recorder (writes down how far away cricket is on worksheet) • Timer (counts to 20 seconds when cricket is released in test container) • Measurer (tells recorder how far away cricket is after 10 and 20 seconds) • Cricket handler (moves crickets in and out of test container to home container)

  18. Cricket Personality Lab Experiment Time!

  19. Cricket Personality Lab Post-experiment questions: Qualitatively, do you think individuals were consistent in how close they got to the spider? Do you think individuals were different from one another?

  20. Cricket Personality Lab Post-experiment questions: If you could change the experimental setup, what would you do differently? What else would you like to test on the crickets or know about personality?

  21. Cricket Personality Lab Post-experiment questions: How do you think personality might affect cricket survival and reproduction?

  22. Cricket Personality Lab Great Job!

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