Procedure
Title: What's in a
brain?
Objective: To discover if age
determines the ability to do riddles quickly.
Hypothesis: I think that age will not
determine the ability to do riddles quickly because I think you
are just good at riddles or not.
Materials:
-5 13-14 year olds
-5 10-11 year olds
-5 40-45 year olds
-Paper
-Pencil
-Computer
-Timer
-Riddles
Variable(s):
Independent: Age of
individual
Dependent: Time it takes to answer
riddle.
Controle: riddle
Procedure List:
-Pick two riddles
-Choose 15 test subjects, all female,
each sub group of similar background.
-Give each test subject the two
riddles in the same order as the other test
subjects.
-Give the test subjects the riddle
separatly, start the timer the second you give them the
riddle.
-When the test subject gives an
answer stop the timer.