Psychology 120

1. Psychology 120 Project

2. Sleep Profile 1. Complete the following: • Sleep diary (6 days) • Larks or Owls • Sleep Deficit Scale • How Good Are My Sleep Strategies? 2. Complete Two of the following: • Remembering Night Dreams • Dream Journal • Dreams and Problem Solving • What Is the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of? • Read the article about your sleep position and determine your position and what that may mean about you. • Now, reflect on your sleep patterns. Try to address each of the questions that follow and compile your answers in a multi-paragraph format. Use APA to format a title page, an abstract and to organize info sections with headings: Do you have any sleep problems? Comment on your sleep patterns, explaining and analyzing how, when and why you sleep, what you remember about your dreams, do you have an irregular sleep schedule? At what time of the day is your performance most efficient? Does the pattern resemble the standard shift of biological rhythm – dipping at 1 or 2 pm or dipping at some time earlier or later? Dement suggests that sleep patterns on the weekend may indicate a backlog of sleep debt, particularly if there is a strong desire to nap or sleep late on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Is this the case with you? • Create a plan for organizing your days, based on your tendency to be a lark or an owl. On a spreadsheet, create a timeline of a typical day, blocking off time for school, work and regular nightly sleep. Highlight when you are optimally awake and energized. Set aside time for homework and other tasks that you deem necessary. Plan a week, and if you try it, evaluate whether or not you were more efficient when you used this new plan. • Include all the completed handouts, your plan (for organizing your days) and the paper.

3. Sleep Research • Option One: Working Independently • Choose two of the following and come up with a plan to distribute to 25 people. Start with a hypothesis. Do you think the result will differ, for example, if you look at teens and adults? Males and females? Will you see a correlation between those who have a big sleep deficit and those who are night owls? Etc. • Distribute and collect forms. • Analyze the data and draw a conclusion (Is there a real difference or not?). You will not find a cause-and-effect relationship, but may think you have found a correlation. Or not. • Put together a report detailing the following: how many people you gave the form to, what your initial hypothesis was, how you collected the data (did you leave it with them and collect later, have them complete in front of you?), describe your population (how many males, females, ages, professions (if you want). What was the process like? Did you find anything surprising? What are your findings? This should come in in a multi-paragraph format, with a APA-inspired title page, abstract, paragraphs with headings, and conclusion. • Sleep Diary • Larks or Owls? • Dream Journal • Remembering Daydreams • How Large is Your Sleep Deficit? • What Is the Stuff Dreams Are Made of? • Remembering your Dreams • Creative Problem Solving

4. Sleep Patterns: Group • You may choose to work in a small group of two or three people and follow the instructions on the previous page, only, because you are in a group, you must use two or three of the handouts and also have a larger sample – 40 people. • Each member is responsible for submitting his or her findings.

5. Survey of Eating Habits • Use handout 10-15 Survey of Eating Habits and distribute to 25 people if you are working alone, and 40 people if you are working in a pair. If you are working in a group of 3 or 4, you must also use either The Disgust Scale or How Healthy is Your Diet 13-2. See if you can find any connections between the two scales, or draw any conclusions based on gender or age. • Compare your findings with the findings in Byrne’s study. • (Each member must) Write a paper detailing the process, how you went about it, what you were “testing” or expecting, how it went, and your results. Use APA – title page, abstract, multi-paragraph body (with headings) and conclusion.

6. Motivation • If you are working alone, use 2 of the following. If you are working in a group, use 3-4 of the following (depending on how big your group is (no bigger than 4). Clearly, you will make your choices because of a suspicion / hypothesis. • Distribute to between 25 and 40 people. Start with a hypothesis and then collect, analyze results and see if you can draw any connections. • Purpose-in-Life Test (10-7) • Hope Scale (10-8) • Unrealistic Optimism (18-18) • Desire for Control (10-11) • Needs Assessment Questionnaire (10-12) • Intrinsic or Extrinsic Motivation (10-5) • Self-Description Inventory (17-2) Write a paper detailing your hypothesis, the process, what you found, problems, etc. APA: title page, abstract, multi-paragraphs with headings, conclusion.

7. Liar, Liar Pants on Fire • Use the text book and the Learner video series to come up with a checklist of “tells” (body language) for a liar. • Then, complete one of the following: • Find 5 clips of famous liars (in the act), watch them and assess whether or not their body language shows they are lying, based on your checklist. Write about your findings for each. Provide the link for each video. • Set up an experiment (trying to catch others in a lie). This will take some thought and you must get the “ok” from me when you have a strategy. You might also use Dispositional Envy 11-10, Emotional Expressivity 11-13, Self-Serving Bias (17-11), Unrealistic Optimism (18-18) with your participants and see if there is any correlation (must use at least one of these, if you are working in a group). • Write about your findings in an APA-inspired paper: title page, abstract and body (detailing what you did, what you found, problems you may have encountered, etc). Paragraphs in the body must be under headings. Write a conclusion and also submit your checklist and any notes you took during your experiment.

8. Public Service Campaign • Create a public service campaign, to be run in the school, on the topic of stress. • Pitch me an idea. I am thinking a series of posters, announcements, pamphlets, handouts, etc. You must “ok” everything you do (with me and possibly with Mr.Munn). Use the information from your textbook and my surveys (handouts). Intent is to educate and offer support. • This is the only option that does not involve a paper, so the quality and quantity of what you are doing must be appropriate given the expectations of the other options.

9. Guidelines • You will have the next four study halls to work on this, but most work will need to be done outside of class. If you are organized, and have the surveys ready, we can make arrangements for you to access students to survey during study hall(s). • Due on May 28. • Value: 20 marks