Mr. Musselman
Cheongna Dalton School
Class Section A
Hyun Jun Han
Theoretical Psychology Experiment
Title: Freedom? Or Restriction?
Name: Hyunjun Han
Institutional Affiliation: Cheongna Dalton School
Class section: A
Introduction
For long there has been a surplus of controversy regarding the human race’s choice between freedom and restriction. Do people excel in a environment where they are restricted, or do they excel when they are completely free? According to behaviors of societies or groups, the answer would vary to that question. For example, whilst the German dictators believed in democracy and supported it, they had chosen totalitarianism over democracy when needed. On the other side, or for a more modern example, the company Gore has and did not have any management system, no boss, no rankings in the company and yet it thrives within its freedom. Thus, to truly judge which may be the better choice, the roots of both the German dictators decision and the company Gore’s policies must be studied, the behavior of individuals when faced with either restriction or freedom. Therefore, in short it boils down to whether the average person can do better in restriction or do better in freedom, this decides humanities’ adherence to either side.
Hypothesis
To hypothesize, because of the fact that restrictions allow or focus on smaller details and discard unnecessary attention to factors outside the restriction, it is hypothesized that a person under restriction will have a higher performance in most activities, than another that has complete freedom, which would have unnecessary factors that may hinder performance mixed in the usable factors within freedom.
Method
Representative Sampling and Procedures
To prove this hypothesis, an experiment will be carried out unto a representative sample to reach a conclusion. First of all, the representative sample will be selected by (after informed consent in viewing