Reference no: EM132299845
ASSIGNMENT -
Your task is to plan your own experiment, collect your own data, analyze the results and then write a brief report. The instructions for the task are presented in the form of a report template:
Title: Emotional expression of faces as a function of the shape of the mouth and eyes.
Summary: A completed report presents a summary here. Keywords: Perception, bottom-up, top-down, emotional expression.
Introduction:
Method: Test Person: The experiment is carried out with only one subject. Ideally, the person should not know the purpose of the experiment, but it is also good if the experimenter conducts the experiment with himself as a subject.
Design: Plan an experiment with factorial design with the factors / independent variables expression in eyes and expression in the mouth. The dependent variable is the expression of the entire face.
Material: Construct a stimulus material with 32 drawn images on faces. Eight faces should have both cheerful mouth and glade eyes, eight should have happy mouth and sad eyes, and eight should have sad mouth and happy eyes and eight drawn with both sad eyes and sad mouth. Therefore, there will be four combinations of mouths and eyes. Create variation between faces so that not everyone with the same combination looks exactly the same. Sort the images in random order. Give each picture a number so the procedure during the experiment is facilitated. (I attach a picture of it so that you know how happy and sad faces look like. I wrote the English translations next to them).

Procedure: The subject's task is to look at each image and estimate the emotional expression of the face. Estimates are made on a scale from 1 to 9 where 1 means "Very sad" and 9 means "Very happy". The estimates are made quickly. Write down each picture's number and the test person's estimate. The material is reviewed image for image and the subject must not look back at previous pictures. The subject should disregard any emotional expressions other than the sad - smile may be in the face.
Data Processing: The estimates are compiled and analyzed with a factorial ANOVA in SPSS.
Results: With a 2 x 2 factorial ANOVA, the effect is tested on the shape of the mouth and the expression of the eyes on the expression of the face. In addition, it is tested whether there is an interaction between the shape of the mouth and the expression of the eyes. (Management; the experiment is factual and therefore requires analysis in the General linear model> Univariate). Enter the three test results in current text according to the norm: F (df1, df2) = x.xxx, p = .yyy, η2p = .zzz.
Create a figure (preferably a line graph) that shows mean values in the experimental conditions. The figure should be edited and provided with the text of the figure and follow the APA's recommendations. Conclusions are drawn.
Discussion: The outcome of the hypothesis is discussed. Method issues are commented on. New studies are proposed.
References: Ekman, P. (1993). Facial expression and emotion.
The American Psychologist, 48 (4)
(Other references are written here)
Appendix: Put examples of the four combinations of mouth shape and expression in eyes here.
Accounting: Start from the report template, edit it to fit your survey and your results. Add the report as a Word document (ie NOT pdf!)
Also send in the SPSS data file, that is, the file where you write in the estimates and which has the ending SAV.