Psychology - Experiment Design Game Show
Have fun in this Game Show where participants blind date by pheromones and unwitting volunteers experience the placebo effect. The most important part of this workshop is the critique of the dodgy hosts experimental design.
Risk Assessment
| Activity | Hazard | Precaution | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love is Blind | Lack of vision while wearing blindfold. | Ensure subject seated before applying blindfold | Medium |
| Trip hazard during removal of socks | Ensure pupils have place to hold on to Maintain discipline | Low | |
| Listening to music | Non-hazardous | Very low | |
| The “Pipe of Death” (Rat Pipe) | Muscle strain during striking action | Ensure pupils are in sensible stance | Low |
| Rat could strike another individual once hit | Ensure pupils are not too close Use of soft rat Ensure rat is struck in appropriate direction | Low | |
| Bat could be used as weapon | Watch pupils and maintain discipline Use soft bat | Low | |
| Pipe could be used as a weapon | Watch pupils and maintain discipline | Low | |
| “The Buzzer” | Non-hazardous | Low | |
| “Nerff Guns” | Gun could be used as weapon | Ensure pupils aim only at the target Use of soft darts in gun | Low |
| “The slugger” | Bat could be used as weapon | Watch pupils and maintain discipline Use soft bat | Low |
| Ball could hit another pupil once hit. | Ensure pupils not too close Ensure ball struck in appropriate direction. | Low | |
| Muscle strain during striking action | Ensure pupils are in sensible stance | Low | |
| “Drugs” | Heat hazard | Ensure tea is made well enough in advance such that it can cool. | Low |
| Contamination | Prepare drinks in kitchen and serve in clean disposable cups | Low |
