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Maricela
Regents Physics
Lab # 1: Love Lab
Mrs. P
Title: Is Love in the Mind or Heart?
Hypothesis: I predict that the majority of the students of the class of 2008 physics class will vote that they cannot control love. Then, I predict the second with the highest votes will be able to control love. Finally, the one with the least votes will be both can and cannot control love.
Materials:
• Pen
• Paper
• Calculator
• Charts
• Graphs
• Standard Deviation
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Articles
Procedure:
• For this lab I will use raw data collected from past physics classes going back to the class of 1998 who performed this lab.
• The way this love lab works is that in our physics class we all took a vote on our opinion on love.
• Each student had to decide if they feel they can control, cannot control, or both can and cannot control love.
• Along with their vote each student had to tell a story of their own personal experience that supported their choice.
• Once everyone voted and all the results were recorded Mrs. P. had the students read an article on the role science plays in love.
• Then, the voting process will be done again to see of anyone’s vote was swayed from reading two articles titled “Are We Finally Getting
Good at Biochemistry to Understand the Mystery- and Magic- of Romance” and “The Science of Love.”
• After the final voting took place and everyone was satisfied with their vote.
• It is now possible to compare the results gained from our class and the results of the past classes.
• In order to see if there is any pattern going on in the voting process.
• The data will help to realize if the girls from past physics classes have anything in common with the girls from our present physics
class.
• Based on the past voting results, statistics, charts, graphs, and standard deviation and the present results of this year’s physics
class.
Click to view Data
Analysis:
• Based on the data on Chart Exhibit 1 and Chart Exhibit 2 I made my hypothesis for the results of the class vote for the class of 2008.
From Chart Exhibit 1 I based my hypothesis using the classes of 1998, 2004, and 2006. The reason I used these three classes is because they
each had a total of 16 students. This is the same total number of students in the class of 2008.
• I predicted that unable to control love will receive the highest votes because the class of 1998 and 2006 had the second highest
results for unable to control love. The class of 2004 had the highest votes for unable to control love.
• Next, I predicted that able to control love will receive the second highest votes. The reason is because the class of 2004 and 2006 had
the third highest votes and the class of 1998 had the highest votes for unable to control love.
• I forecasted that the vote of both will receive the least votes. The reason is because in 1998 the vote of both received the least
votes. In 2004 the vote of both received the second highest votes. In 2006 the vote of both received the highest votes. These three results
for the vote of both did not have the probability of 2 out of 3 years sharing the same position in votes. This made the vote of both
unlikely to have the probability of being the one to receive the first or second highest votes.
• Chart Exhibit 2 had the voting results for each class year represented in percents. Instead with this graph I used all the class
results. The only results I excluded from making my hypothesis are the classes of 1999, 2001, and 2003. The reason I excluded these three
year is because they had ties or break evens. In these 3 classes two of the three choices shared the same number of votes.
• Second thing I did was only look at the highest percent of each class. By looking at that I saw that the classes of 2000, 2004, and
2005 had three high percentages of unable to control love. For the vote of able to control love the classes of 1998 and 2002 had the
highest vote for that choice. Last for the vote of both the classes of 2006 and 2007 had the highest vote for that choice. These statistics
supported my hypothesis as well of my predicted results.
• After taking the class vote for the class of 2008 as seen in Chart Exhibit 6. I was able to see that my hypothesis turned out to be
incorrect. The choice of able to control love received the highest vote of 6. While the choices of unable to control and both had a tie or
break even sharing the same result of 5 votes for each.
• Once I already had the results for the class of 2008 I was able to make a decade results of can, cannot, and both, as a whole of all
the classes put in one as seen in Chart Exhibit 4. another chart I was able to do was Chart Exhibit 5 which showed the decade mean and
standard deviation of can, cannot, and both.
• From looking at Chart Exhibit 4 I was able to see that as a whole can control love has the highest vote. The second highest vote is
both can and cannot control love. The least amount of votes was received by cannot control love. Showing that it was most likely for can
control love to receive the highest vote in the years to come.
• From looking at Chart Exhibit 5 of the mean as a whole I saw that both had the highest mean value and standard deviation showing that
the vote of both is more likely to be swayed. The vote can and cannot have about the same value in mean and standard deviation. Showing
that they are almost equally likely to be swayed.
• By looking at the results in Chart Exhibit 5 I was able to see that in the results of 2008 and later results that the people who vote
for both are more likely to be swayed to vote for able to control and unable to control love. This can then lead to a probability of unable
to control and both ending up with the same result in votes in the years to come. Leading me to the conclusion I gathered from doing this
love lab.
Conclusion: In conclusion whether you are male or female you both have “estrogen” and “oxytocin” released in the brain through emotion. One of the typical emotions that are released in our brains is love. For this experiment my hypothesis proved to be incorrect. Throughout this experiment I learned many things. For example, women have higher levels of “oxytocin.” This is a chemical that makes a woman more attached to a man and have a stronger bond of mother and child as well. While men have less “oxytocin” in the brain they are more likely not to grow attached in a relationship than a woman or shares a greater parental bond with an offspring. Showing that scientifically love does not only have to do with personal feelings but what the body is telling our brains when we meet the person we feel we are in love with.
References:
http://www.youramazingbrain.org/lovesex/science.htm. At-Bristol Bristol UK.
http://www.youramazingbrain.org/ September 25, 2007
Johnson, Steven. “Are We Finally Getting Good Enough at Biochemistry to Understand
the Mystery- and Magic- of Romance?” Discover Learning Series May 2003: Pages
72-76.
Catherine
Lab#1: Love Lab Mrs.Petrignani
Title: Can You Control Who You Fall In Love With?
Hypothesis: Controlling who you love really depends on the people involved. I do not
believe there is anyway of finding out if you can control who you fall in love
with or not. I believe that if you fall in love with someone and they hurt you
that you can get away from that person and therefore control it. I believe this
based on my experiences.
Materials:
~Pen
~Pencil
~Paper
~Calculator
~Microsoft Word
~Internet Explorer
~Microsoft Excel
~Chart of all classes’ answers
Procedure: Ask every girl individually what is her experience in love. Then find out if
she believes that she can control, cannot control who she falls in love with or
both. The answer must be based on her experience in relationships and love.
Then each girl must read two articles that have to do with the scientific side
of love. The articles talk about oxytocin. After reading the articles each girl is
asked if it made her change her mind. In the case of Love Lab 2008 no one
changed their opinions, but other classes have changed their minds after
reading the article. Then set up a series of charts and graphs. These charts and
graphs represent the percentages of all classes and each class individually.
Click to view Data
Analysis: I made a chart of percentages which shows what the average for each class. According to my research many people believe that they cannot control who you fall in love with, but most like me believe it is a little bit of both. Girls who said they cannot control who they love seem to have a higher level of oxytocin in their bodies. Oxytocin is a hormone released by the brain in men and women during sex, birth and breastfeeding The percentages were pretty close 37% said both, 35% said they cannot control it, and 28% said they can control it. I looked up a few articles online and they all indicate that people who have higher oxytocin levels trust others more than a person with a lower oxytocin level. Trust is one of the main components that lead to love. This means that people with high oxytocin levels are more susceptible to falling in love faster, easier, and often with the wrong person. Since Trust is the effect of high levels of oxytocin I can infer that when we lose trust in someone or when we are hurt by someone we trust our oxytocin levels go down making us fall out of love. Not trusting someone can lead to a breakup, separation, or divorce. When you have more than one experience like this in your life you do not trust people as much and therefore take slower steps when forming a new relationship.
Conclusion: Based on my analysis I have come up with the conclusion that oxytocin levels decrease when we go through stress, depression, or bad experiences in life. Most girls believe like me that it’s both depending on the situation, the person, and your oxytocin levels.
References:
Chart on experiences from teenagers from the class of 1998 –
2008
Articles: Johnson, Steven. Are we Finally Getting Good Enough at
Biochemistry to Understand the Mystery and Magic
of Romance?
youramazingbrain.org. The Science of Love.
www.answers.com/topic/oxytocin.
Oxytocin: Definition and Much More from Answers.com