It’s no secret that I am significantly older than the average college freshman. As a twenty eight year old woman, I have spent many nights eating dinner alone or seeing a movie by myself because none of my friends enjoy horror films. This does not imply that I enjoy eating by myself or watching movies alone. Perhaps it’s because I am a very social extrovert, but I definitely prefer the company of my partner or anyone else that can offer a good conversation over dinner rather than sitting all by myself in silence. For a social butterfly such as myself I expected that this experiment to be challenging, but I didn’t expect it to be quite so anxiety provoking.
For this experiment I started my date night with dinner at Waterstone Pizza in Lynchburg. I arrived at their busiest hour, Friday night at 7:00pm and as usual there was a wait, but when placing my name on the wait list the hostess asked me if I would be more comfortable at the bar. She explained that this option would save me a 45-minute wait and I could eat at the bar. For the sake of this experiment I declined the offer and insisted that I wait for a table. The hostess seemed a little stunned and even a little annoyed that a single person would now be occupying an entire table. Her reaction to my request made me feel as though I needed to apologize for being alone. I immediately felt as thought I was a nuisance, despite the fact that I was a paying customer. After nearly an hour of waiting, the hostess (whom I was sitting right next to) finally announced over the intercom “Burke, party of one!” I’m not sure if it was because I was extremely hungry or that the hostess was rude, but I became even more uncomfortable and even a little agitated at this point. I had waited 15 minu...
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...It was far too stressful and uncomfortable for me to enjoy my meal, which is a sin in my book.
The main thing this experiment taught me was just how much the feeling of being singled out changed my behavior and made me more aware of my manners. I wasn’t any more or less polite than I usually am, but I was definitely more uptight in the restaurant when I felt others were watching me. However in the dark movie theater I was able to kick back and relax when I felt there wasn’t anyone watching me. This experiment also solidified that I am a very social and extroverted person. I was literally uncomfortable not socializing in a crowd of people. This experiment would perhaps be more enjoyable for someone like my introverted partner who loves doing everything alone. As for me, I am glad that I had this experience but I definitely don’t plan on repeating it anytime soon.
With the invention of phones being able to communicate easier with one another and the ability to make plans in order to meet up with friends, we as humans have become dependent on social interactions. As a junior in high school, a perfect specimen for craving social interaction I don’t see the big appeal of socialization. In my childhood, I did love hanging out with my friends, but as I matured throughout the years I began to clearly see that there is nothing special about it. As a perspiring college wrestler, I constantly train throughout the years to become the best I can be. I constantly prepare for the upcoming season to arrive. I plan on experiencing the thrill of walking out onto the mat with the crowd literally in hand reach for as long as possible. The sensation of being in the spotlight in front of everyone as the emotions of myself and the crowd reach into my heart. This is the feeling that I want to preserve. In order to keep this moment cherished my as long as possible, I must focus on the importance of wrestling and leave the interaction aside. Once in awhile, I will hang out with friends, but as of right now I have my priorities set. In addition, I love being alone. I can’t explain the sensation of being alone with oneself. It is not exactly thrilling nor happiness, it's more on the line of inter-connection with oneself. The sense of being alone in solitude is to find your thoughts and understand yourself on a deeper, more intimate level. People are fearful of being alone by themselves, they are scared of what magical views they might think of when left with your own thoughts. Even, by watching television or listening to music just being alone by yourself can go a long way. As a high schooler, I still want to talk to people, laugh with them and smile, but before all of that first, become seduced in the life of
irritated with the crowd around him as he is repeatedly asking for a table, but he stops for a
I choose to examine the Stanford Prison Study. This experiment was conducted by a famous psychologist named Philip Zimbardo. This study focused on testing if and how quickly individuals would conform to social roles they were assigned. The experiment took place on the bottom floor of the psychology building at Stanford University which was transformed into a mock prison. In order to achieve the appearance of a real prison, the cells included bare walls, limited space, and bared doors and windows. He then selected 21 males from 75 volunteers and appointed them as either a prisoner or a guard.
The participants were the twenty-seven students of Professor David Otis' Experimental Psychology class. The group of twenty-seven was split into smaller groups. We were not paid with pecuniary funds, but we did receive partial credit towards our final grade in the class.
Everyone unconsciously follows the crowd and obeys until one person steps out to help then they all help. With obedience to authority it’s the same thing of feeling like you have to obey even though what you could be doing is inhumane or hurtful to others. Both of these experiments show people looking to follow and feeling as if they have to conform and do what they are being told whether it be an unconscious/ silent agreement or a spoken
The film A Class Divided was designed to show students why it is important not to judge people by how they look but rather who they are inside. This is a very important lesson to learn people spend too much time looking at people not for who they are but for what ETHNITICY they are. One VARIABLE that I liked about the film is that it should the children how it felt to be on both sides of the spectrum. The HYPOTHESIS of the workshop was that if you out a child and let them experience what it is like to be in the group that is not wanted because of how they look and then make the other group the better people group that the child will have a better understanding of not to judge a person because of how they look but instead who they are as people. I liked the workshop because it made everyone that participated in it even the adults that took it later on realize that you can REHABILITAE ones way of thinking. The exercise showed how a child that never had any RASIZM towards them in the exercise they turned against their friends because of the color of their eyes. The children for those two days got the chance to experience both sides of DISCRMINATION. The children once day felt SEGRIGATED and inferior to the children that were placed in the group with more privilege. Then the next day the children that were placed in the privileged group were in the SEGRIGATED group. The theory is if you can teach a child how to DISCRIMINATE against a person that you can just as easily teach them how not to. Sometimes a person needs to feel what another person feels to understand how they treat people.
I was raised to always respect one’s personal space, as well as never intrude on someone’s conversation, both in which, I took part in. At first I had to force myself to walk over to the tables and then force myself to take a seat next to them. I was fighting against my inner conscience to make my body do the experiment for the sake of the experiment. The friends who were with me had to reassure me that it would be fine and to go ahead and follow through on the experiment, knowing that I needed to get people’s reactions to the situation. I was experiencing anxiety over what I knew I needed to
During this experiment I choose to use the elevator with doors in the front and back. The elevator back doors are for storage and janitors. Which really left my peers with so many assumptions and questions on why I am facing the opposite way. I stood at the front desk with a friend of mine to arrange the perfect opportunities to get reactions. Whenever I spotted 5 or more individuals enter the two sided elevator I got on with them. Whenever we entered, I kept walking straight towards the back door as if I was going threw. The further I walked the more their heads would turn to see where I was going. People then noticed the breaking of the social norms. The groups that were involved equally reacted different towards the experiment. Of course, I got use to the stares and disturbing looks. They all stayed away from me looking very uncomfortable. There was a couple of people that asked me if I was okay or need help. Which shocked me the most because I really did not expect any one to
I decided I would go to my fraternity house for lunch to see the reactions of people who actually knew me. We had meatball subs for lunch so I made two decent sized ones and sat at a table with 6 of my closer friends. It only took about a minute to see a reaction from some of the kids at my table. One of my friends told me to shut my mouth and the rest of the table started laughing. I stuck to my plan until another one of my friends told me to, “eat normally or go eat somewhere else”. Everyone’s face went from looking weirdly at me to giving me a straight stare. I got the observation I needed so I explained to them what was going on and finished my meal in peace. The most interesting thing this time was the sudden change of expression when one person decided to tell me it wasn’t okay to break the social norm and eat with my mouth open. All it took was one person to step up in order for the rest of the table to get on board. Most people won’t directly call you out for going against a social norm but they won’t hesitate to back the first person who
On September 12, 2014, I observed two people; Person A and Person B. The observation took place at Applebee’s, a local restaurant, beginning at 7:21 p.m. and ending observation at 8:06 p.m. I was serving their table for the evening, enabling myself to observe them closely. The restaurant had died down from the dinner rush, leaving them one of three tables in the smoking section, normally filled with eight. Along with the outside light fading, the lighting indoors was dim, making the dining experience feel more quiet and intimate. The background noise was filled with a light roar of other group’s conversations, and a jazz station played quietly from the speakers overhead.
Since Slater et al. were replicating Milgram’s study of obedience, their setup was also identical. The advantage of this was that the were no variances slipping into the experiment thus ensuring that the findings were solid and pure of contamination due to minor changes; The results were genuine findings into human behaviour.
sitting at the table, and a man who had drunk too much cried out that I was not
Her eyes shined like a glossy pearl just washing on a shore of black sand with the warm rays of the sun shining down on it. Lips of bright cherry red went well with the tight black dress she was wearing. The light hit her just right so you could see every luscious curve of her body. She smelled like an ocean breeze coming in to the shore. Just try to imagine the perfect most beautiful woman you have ever seen in your life and times that by ten fold. Absolute perfection on high heals.
My social experiment, took way too much thought to complete. I could not think about what I should do for this project until about noon on that beautiful Sunday. I invited a couple of friends to go with me to Walmart, but I was unsuccessful and I only got one friend to accompany me. Even so, we had fun.
Since I was a little girl, big brown eyes, and very short may add. I was called “Shorty” and