The Effect of Optical Illusions on The Human Brain
Hypothesis: If people are shown certain optical illusions, then there should be a reaction, because people react to things they don’t understand.
Independent Variable:
The Optical Illusions
(These are the ones that will be used in this experiment:
(Pretty cool right?)
The Optical illusions will be shown once a day to all 4 of the people. Once it’s shown to a person, record the data and move on.
The Levels of the Independent Variable:
Person 1 / Person 2 / Person 3 / Person 43 days / 3 days / 3 days / 3 days
Record Results on Day 1 / Record Results on Day 1 / Record Results on Day 1 / Record Results on Day 1
Record Results on Day 2 / Record Results on Day 2 / Record Results on Day 2 / D Record Results on Day 2
Record Results on Day 3 / Record Results on Day 3 / Record Results on Day 3 / Record Results on Day 3
Dependent Variable:
The People
The people will look at optical illusions and describe how it made them feel after. This will be done with four people over the course of three days. There will be one illusion per day, and then they will describe how they felt and it will be recorded.
Constants and Controls:
1: All the illusions are the same for everyone on each day.
2: All the people will be asked the same question
3: The people will all sit in the same chair and room when I ask the questions.
Procedure:
Step 1: Gather whoever is need for the experiment.
Step 2: Gather the Illusions
Step 3: Make sure the people are comfortable and then call the first person in.
Step 4: Show the first person an optical illusion and record how it made the person feel and how the person is reacting.
Step 5:Bring in another person and let the person who was just in go.
Step 6: Repeat steps 1-4 with this person and then repeat step 5 until all the people are gone.
Step 7: Wait a day and then repeat steps 1-6 and then do this step again.
Step 8: Record all the findings into the observations and finish up.
Observations:
Female 53 years old / Female 14 years old / Male 15 years old / Male 51 years oldIllusion 1: / Thinks it’s Hypnotic / Makes the person bored / Expected more and is Underwhelmed / Makes the person bored
Illusion 2: / It’s Freaky / Thinks it’s trippy / Thinks it’s cool / Makes the person frustrated
Illusion 3: / Thinks it’s funny / It makes the person uncomfortable / Thinks it’s kind of creepy / Makes the person feel surprised
Results:
Everybody had a reaction to each of the illusions regardless of age and or sex. The reactions from person to person differed for each illusion. For the first illusion 3 out of the 4 respondents felt general boredom. For the second illusion 3 out of the 4 thought the illusion was generally peculiar. For the third illusion 2 out of 4 had a reaction of being uncomfortable. The other 2 out of 4 felt the illusion was amusing.
Conclusion:
The conclusion to this lab is that no one had no reaction to the illusions. There was always a reaction proving the hypothesis was correct, “If people are shown certain optical illusions, then there should be a reaction, because people react to things they don’t understand.” Each person was different from the last and surprisingly they had similar reactions to some of the illusions. This proves that if illusions are used in the correct way they could be used to influence people into doing certain things or feeling certain ways. Until there is further research done we won’t know the exact way to do it, but when that research is done we could use optical illusions for a lot more than to have fun. Maybe we could use it as camo for the military, some form of mind control. I have no idea. Until research is done no one will.