Does Age Affect Reaction Time
HYPOTHESIS
As you may already know aging is a natural thing that occurs in everyone’s life. When
we are born there will be a time when we are no longer young as we used
to be before, but in fact we will start to age as the years go by. This can affect how we
react to certain things and how quickly we respond. People who are older have nerve
impulses that react more slowly and will have a slower reaction time than people who
are younger. I think that as we grow older our reaction time does decrease.
MATERIALS ruler paper/pen
stopwatch
chairs and a location to do this experiment
measuring tape
6 volunteers (all with different variations of age)
PROCEDURE
1. Have all the materials and volunteers prepared. …show more content…
COMMUNICATION
This experiment was easy to do and will allow you to learn about how age affects
people’s reaction time. If I had to do this experiment again, I would change a few
things in this experiment, I would have gotten more volunteers that had a big age
difference. I would also want to test this experiment about 20 times to get the best
results. Instead, of just having the people grab a falling ruler I would have wanted to
run a series of tests to see what certain things the different age groups react better to.
Although after many attempts and fails I just decided that timing how fast it takes for
people to catch the ruler would be the best choice rather than my other option which
was using the ruler measurements of the ruler to record how long it took for them to
catch it because there were times when people would move their thumb and the
measurement would be inaccurate. I believe that everyone should try this experiment
especially little kids because as I said earlier this is a great and fun way to teach kids
about how our brain reacts to things and how age affects reaction
As you may already know aging is a natural thing that occurs in everyone’s life. When
we are born there will be a time when we are no longer young as we used
to be before, but in fact we will start to age as the years go by. This can affect how we
react to certain things and how quickly we respond. People who are older have nerve
impulses that react more slowly and will have a slower reaction time than people who
are younger. I think that as we grow older our reaction time does decrease.
MATERIALS ruler paper/pen
stopwatch
chairs and a location to do this experiment
measuring tape
6 volunteers (all with different variations of age)
PROCEDURE
1. Have all the materials and volunteers prepared. …show more content…
COMMUNICATION
This experiment was easy to do and will allow you to learn about how age affects
people’s reaction time. If I had to do this experiment again, I would change a few
things in this experiment, I would have gotten more volunteers that had a big age
difference. I would also want to test this experiment about 20 times to get the best
results. Instead, of just having the people grab a falling ruler I would have wanted to
run a series of tests to see what certain things the different age groups react better to.
Although after many attempts and fails I just decided that timing how fast it takes for
people to catch the ruler would be the best choice rather than my other option which
was using the ruler measurements of the ruler to record how long it took for them to
catch it because there were times when people would move their thumb and the
measurement would be inaccurate. I believe that everyone should try this experiment
especially little kids because as I said earlier this is a great and fun way to teach kids
about how our brain reacts to things and how age affects reaction