FA16- Project 7: Week 6

The population of interest would be people friends and family with ADHD. The samples that are picked from the population would be at random to prevent bias selections. Though they have the mental disorder, they will be picked at random. The conditions of this experiment were that the experimental group were given medication in order to focus on the game and the control group were given a placebo; thinking they were given medication when they really weren’t given anything. I assigned subjects to these conditions by observing how they respond to simple questions about themselves. If they didn’t answer in a timely fashion, they would be placed in the control group.  Subjects that were included are anyone that attends school. The screening criteria used to determine if a subject was eligible for the study would be me as the experimenter asking questions about home life and how there ADHD affects school work. People who were excluded are those who don’t have ADHD. The average age of the subjects would be from 16-21. They can be both male and female, any ethnicity and only be in school. The subjects were motivated to participate by getting free time to hang out with their friends and were taken out to go bowling. None of the participants received course credit. The materials used in this experiment are: a paper with different sized circles on it and colored pencils. The participants will be asked to fill in with any color of their choice the circles as even and inside the circle as they can. When they fill in the circles, they must only fill them in completely to be counted in the experiment. They can take their time coloring in the circles, but they must be completely filled in. In the experimental group, they would take their daily medication before they started coloring. The control group took sugar pills thinking it was their daily medication and started coloring the same time as the experimental group. This experiment would be completed in an hour in a span of 5 days. Every day, each participant would complete a couple of circles, and once completed, the participants would write a short response on how it made them feel after they did the task.

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About Robert O. Duncan

I'm an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at City University of New York, with joint appointments in Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. I also have an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at New York University. My research interests include cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging, glaucoma, neurodegenerative disorders, attention, learning, memory, educational technology, pedagogy, and developing games for education.

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