Goal: To see if people are affected be the constant exposure of advertising through the media. Catchy little jingles (short songs used in advertisements) like the "Smarties song" tend to stay in your head but are you really affected by the words.

 

Hypothesis: That only a few people eat the red smarties last, because they don't care what colour it is that they eat last, and that more people crunck them rather than sucking them.

 

Materials:

-smarties

-plastic containers

-12 people of different ages

-pencil

-paper

 

Variables:

-Independent: Whether they have heard the jingle or not.

-Dependent: Whether they crunch their smarties, suck them, and whether or not they eat the red ones last.

-Control: My experiment will be controlled. Each bowl will contain the exact same amount of smarties, in the exact same colours (three of each color).

 

Procedure:

1. I will put three smarties of each colour in a plastic container.

2. I will get the first person to sit down and offer them the smarties.

3. I will quietly observe them eating the smarties without them knowing that I'm doing an experiment.

4. When their done, I will write down whether they ate the red ones last or not, and whether they crunched them, sucked them, ate them all at once, etc.

5. I will go to the next person, and repeat this procedure until all twelve people have eaten a bowl of smarties.

*For the younger kids, I will first ask the permission of their parents.

 

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