Lab: Reaction Time 40 points
The Question?
What is your reaction time? Is it faster or slower than others’ reaction time?
The Job
Devise a way to test your reaction time without using a stopwatch.
Background Research
You will have to do some background research on reaction time and how to find it without a stopwatch. Go online and search for "reaction time" and "finding reaction time" to get some ideas about how you will find it. Make sure to include a brief description of your preliminary research in your lab report.
Tutorial: Reaction Time Lab
For this lab, you will participate in a laboratory discussion with a virtual team. Select the play button to begin the tutorial, and then use the navigation buttons to pause/stop, continue, or reset the tutorial. View the presentation as often as you would like, and take notes as you follow along. Be sure to set your volume at a reasonable level before you begin.
Download the activity as a PDF.
Teams
You may be assigned a single partner, or you may be a part of a larger team. This decision will be made by your teacher. Whether you are assigned team members to share information with or you have to find some people to test—you must include at least five other people’s data in your report and make comparisons between the results.
Report Form
Download your report form for communicating the results of the lab to your instructor. For more information on what to include in this report, please visit the getting started section on Writing a Lab Report.
Submit your completed lab to the Lab: Reaction Time assignment link for grading. For information on how this assignment will be graded, please visit the orientation.
