Blood Pressure There was a series of people used in this experiment to look at blood pressure. The first step was to take the subjects normal blood pressure, then after showing them a scary clip retakes the blood pressure. While taking blood pressure consider age, weight, family history, commitment and gender to see if the subject has low or high blood pressure normally. After receiving all the data the charts that were made were based on age and gender. “Blood pressure is the measurement of blood going against blood vessels” (Causes). People can have naturally high or low blood pressure but the book normal is 120 over 80, but everyone has a different normal. When people become scared their blood pressure naturally goes up because of fight or flight response. When someone becomes scared or frightened the body starts to react. Those reactions are there to get your body ready to run or fight from danger (Fight-or-flight). There are three steps in the flight or fight and during those steps is when you blood pressure will increase. “When comparing women and men in flight or fight women blood pressure and heart rate increase more because the women are more likely to anticipate what will come next”(Women's). When people go to a haunted house or watch a scary movie they might notice their body changing. For the independent research project blood pressure was checked based on age and gender before then after shown a scary clip. When measuring people blood pressure he or she might have had other problems with blood pressure based of weight, family history or stress. Must observe those types of things while performing the experiment because it could mess up the data. If the subject is shown a scary clip after taking their normal blo... ... middle of paper ... ...nder has a lot more to do with changing blood pressure than age. The only time age really mattered in this was when the group children. The younger subject had high blood pressure the second time because they didn’t quite understand what the clip was but knew it was scary. Overall this experiments goal was accomplished by either research or data. Works Cited "Causes of High Blood Pressure: Weight, Diet, Age, and More." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2013. ""How Does the Fight-or-flight Response Work? - Curiosity." Curiosity. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2013 Newly Diagnosed High Blood Pressure Scared To Death - HealthCentral." Newly Diagnosed High Blood Pressure Scared To Death - HealthCentral. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2013. "Women's Brains 'make Them More Scared during Horror Movies'" The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 23 Aug. 2011. Web. 01 Dec. 2013.
Over a three week period a test subject was instructed to come to the exercise physiology lab once a week. The purpose of the first week was to determine the baseline test data for the participant. During this first week, the subject was asked how many hours of sleep they had gotten the night before and how much they weighed. The subject was then instructed to put on a heart monitor and wear an O2 apparatus and begin running on a treadmill. This treadmill was set at zero incline for the beginning of the run until three minutes had passed. At the three minute mark the incline increased by 2.5%. After this the incline was continuously increased by 2.5% every two minutes. During this process, the VO2 and RER exchange rate of the subject was being tracked through the O2 apparatus. Their heart rate was recorded every 15 seconds. In addition, the subject was asked their perceived exertion at every increase in incline. The subject continued to run until they could not run anymore, at this time they would hop off the treadmill.
The Mayo Clinic’s book on High Blood Pressure was full of detailed facts about blood pressure and what it is. This is extremely significant to the experiment because blood pressure is one of the variables being tested. Understanding blood pressure is one of the key components to receiving accurate results from this experiment. Most of the book is on high blood pressure, which is not necessary for the experiment, but the book still had plenty of useful information about blood pressure itself. The book explains that when the heart beats, a surge of blood is released from the left ventricle. It also tells of how arteries are blood vessels that move nutrients and oxygenated blood from the heart to the body’s tissues. The aorta, or the largest artery in the heart, is connected to the left ventricle and is the main place for blood to leave the heart as the aorta branches off into many different smaller
In addition, each of the test subjects had high resting heart rate. On average, resting heart rate should be approximately
Hypertension can be defined as a force exerted against the wall of blood vessels. However, high blood pressure occurs when there is high pressure at the time of ventricle contraction during the systolic phase against decrease contract during diastolic phase as the ventricles relax and refill. This can be recorded as systolic over diastolic in millimeters of mercury. (Wallymahmed, M. 2008).
The main materials include energy drinks, water, test subjects, heart rate monitor and a timer. For the test subjects I chose 17 year old boys who all weighed about the same. As for the procedures they were fairly simple and required at least an hour to do. My first step was checking each person’s heart rate and writing it down on a piece of paper. After that, I measured one cup of each drink into separate cups to make sure they were each consuming the same amount. Followed by them drinking the drink they were assigned to, I set the timer for 15 minutes to notify me when I needed to check their heart rate again. Once an hour had past I had enough data to make a conclusion.
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The aim of the experiment was to support the assumption that the participant who had a higher (overweig...
First, we tested the dark environment, so place the subject into a dark room, away from safety hazards. Then, before starting the experiment, count his resting heart rate, as this will be constant throughout the experiment. Start the video after calculating his resting heart rate, as as soon the scare happens, immediately count his heart rate. After that, allow the subject to calm down to resting heart rate, and repeat the same procedure, except using a different environment or video. To save time, each video will be approximately 30 seconds. This will be strictly enforced to prevent any potential alterations to
Too many horror films provide scares and screams throughout their respective cinemas. Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers. However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s novel, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s. The model is a female is featured as a primary character and that females tend to always overcome a situation at some point throughout the film.
Initially, the experiment was supposed to be a two weeks long but, it was cut down to only six days.The study was ended sooner than expected because of the various effects that it had on the subjects. With no view of the outside world the subjects really committed to their roles. So much so that the line between experiment and reality was very blurred. The men were having various breakdowns and had psychological trauma. The subjects were also behaving in ways that were completely different
Watson and his team opened the experiment by questioning if a loud noise would cause a fear reaction. A hammer struck against a steel bar was an abrupt sound causing Albert to throw his hands in the air. By the third and last strike, the child was crying; this was the first time an emotive state (in the lab) produced fear, causing Albert to cry. The sound conditioning led to Watson and his team questioning whether they could condition an emotion while presenting a white rat to the child at the same time they strike the steel bar.
This experiment consisted of 32 participants, of which 17 were male and 15 female, with a mean age of 19.8 (SD=0.87). Students selected from a variety of courses at the University of Aberdeen were recruited as participants.
The life is full of stressful situations. The human being may found himself in dangerous, awkward, and weary position that will make him stressed and this is how the body responds. Anxiety is the body 's response to any change that requires a conformity or reaction. (Goldberg, 2014). The stress is a coin with two faces, positive face and negative face. So, the stress is not always bad, actually it is your body 's method for securing you. It helps the person to stand on his feet, face the emergency and dangerous situation and make the person do his works rather than play and stay in front of the television. Therefore, when the person threatened his sensory system reacts by discharging a surge of anxiety hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol,
When we watch an intense scene in a film our heart rate and blood pressure increase. This can and does lead to heart attacks, in people who have cardiovascular weaknesses. Even if you are young and healthy, watching horror movies can mess with you in ways you didn’t expect. When you get scared your adrenaline and cortisone levels spike. This in turn can dredge up repressed traumatic memories. The change in your brain chemistry reminds you of times when it was in a similar state, even if you had no idea you even had those memories. An example of a Horror movies that have influenced real life is Jaws. This blockbuster has a large shark terrorizing a small resort town, causing the local police chief to team with a marine biologist and shark hunter to take it down. Though shark attacks are hugely infrequent in real life, Spielberg’s film blew away that fact and struck fear deep into beach-loving folks’ hearts, causing widespread panic that a shark could strike at any time. The movie’s sheer terror factor was nothing like audiences had seen before, and the result was that, for a while, beach tourism took a notable hit from coast to coast as punters feared they would be munched to pieces. Every single person who saw
Only first names will be used to identify information about the participants which will be collected and kept in a locked drawer with numbers used in place of names to identify participants. Each participant will be given a random number that will be assigned to the Fagerstrom questionnaire and handed to patient pre-recruitment. Only the DNP student and adviser will have access to this information. Anonymity will be maintained on all pre-post questionnaires and survey responses. There is no anticipated risk to the participants. A determination of Human Subject Form will be submitted to the University of Massachusetts in order to see if it meets the definition of human subject research for IRB