The Bradshaw & Kinch 🙌🙌 Competition Study 🙌🙌

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The Bradshaw & Kinch 🙌🙌 Competition Study 🙌🙌

The Bradshaw & Kinch Competition Study

This study aims to discover the effects of competition on mental performance. This has applications in school, as well as in the workplace.

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Variations

If we complete the initial study efficiently enough, we can conduct more experiments with different variables, participants and materials.

However, we will need to pick different

Depending on sleep level

Negative Reinforcement

(Milgram It)

Hidden Target

With Reward

Memory Test

Participants

How?

Oppurtunistic Sampling

Only option we can functionally use

Who?

16-17 year-olds, educated to A-level

Experimental Design

Repeated Measures

Participant variables controlled

Materials

Verbal and Non-Verbal reasoning test

We will measure the percentage difference between conditions

We may need to conduct pilot studies, so that we know, without time pressure of the effects of competition, which test is easier, as we are measuring the percentage difference, but some tests may just be more difficult than others, and so the difficulty of the tests would be a confounding variable.

We will add a time limit so that people need to try to complete the test

there must be separate, equally difficult tests, as we are using repeated measures

Not memory because we are testing for mental performance, which is tested better in a formal test (e.g. non-verbal/ verbal reasoning)

Variables

Dependent

The number of correctly answered questions

Independent

Type of Competition

Competition against target

competition against others

no competition

Aim: To study the effects of competition on mental performance.

Hypothesis: The scores of the participants will be different depending on if they are competing with another participant else or not.

Percentage difference between conditions will show us how competition affects mental performance, as, if competition has a positive impact, the mean percentage difference will be higher in the competition categories.