Handedness Experiment Report
Since I was three or four years old, I enjoyed discovering how people think and what is going on in their brain. I found my interests in psychiatry, psychology, and then brain science specifically when I was in seventh grade. I was also always interested in handedness because I found it interesting that every person might randomly find himself or herself to possess a certain kind of handedness. I was one of the left-handers who changed the writing and eating hand into the right hand. Playing sports and drawing was still more comfortable with the left hand, but now I am getting used to the right except when I get to use my left hand unconsciously. I heard that some educators claimed that the brain could be functioned in different ways. This
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Since there are many different definitions of handedness, the results of my experiment could be significantly affected by my choice. For the definition that I will use in this case, handedness is the hand that one prefers and performs better in use. Because the two most common definitions were the hand that one prefers, or the hand that one prefers to use, I made my own definition of combining together. In this experiment, handedness has to match both of the conditions of preference and performance. If the preference and performance does not match, then it would be the hand that the person uses more than the other. The independent variable for every experiment is handedness as defined, and the participants in my experiments are considered either naturally right-handed, naturally left-handed, or people who have switched their handedness intentionally. For the dependent variables of the experiment, the participants could do tests that are related to the learning modalities, which would be performing Reading, Listening, Visual, and Kinesthetic skills from the VARK model of Neil Fleming. (CITATION) The impulse of touch and vision is from the contralateral half of the body to the hemisphere of the brain, and auditory input is from both sides, so this supports the skills being the dependent variables in the experiment. (Handedness) As a result, the hypothesis is that there will be a difference in learning modalities depending on handedness, because people have different dominant parts of the brain that have different major functions due to handedness.
Since there are many different definitions of handedness, the results of my experiment could be significantly affected by my choice. For the definition that I will use in this case, handedness is the hand that one prefers and performs better in use. Because the two most common definitions were the hand that one prefers, or the hand that one prefers to use, I made my own definition of combining together. In this experiment, handedness has to match both of the conditions of preference and performance. If the preference and performance does not match, then it would be the hand that the person uses more than the other. The independent variable for every experiment is handedness as defined, and the participants in my experiments are considered either naturally right-handed, naturally left-handed, or people who have switched their handedness intentionally. For the dependent variables of the experiment, the participants could do tests that are related to the learning modalities, which would be performing Reading, Listening, Visual, and Kinesthetic skills from the VARK model of Neil Fleming. (CITATION) The impulse of touch and vision is from the contralateral half of the body to the hemisphere of the brain, and auditory input is from both sides, so this supports the skills being the dependent variables in the experiment. (Handedness) As a result, the hypothesis is that there will be a difference in learning modalities depending on handedness, because people have different dominant parts of the brain that have different major functions due to handedness.