You will need:
- Air conditioner
- A small room
- Thermometer
- Heater
- 10-15 volunteers
- Mental games (Sudoku, multiplication tests, etc.)
- Pen and paper
- Stopwatch
Why do chilled temperatures affect our mind? Find out with this experiment.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Spread the experiment out over a span of 2 days.
- On day one, cool a small room down to 17-18
degrees by air conditioner. - One at a time, ask your volunteers to sit in the room and solve the mental game you have given them.
- Note down the time taken by each subject to solve the puzzle in the cold room.
- Next day heat the room up to 30 degrees by heater. Keeping the same mental game but with different questions, ask the same volunteers to
solve the given game. - Once again, record the time taken by them to do it.
- Collate your findings, by comparing the time taken by the same volunteer to complete the game in both the hot and cold temperatures.
RESULT
You will find that most if not all volunteers, will have finished the game given to them faster in the room with the lower temperatures than when they were in the room with the higher temperature. Studies show that in warmer temperatures, our bodies use up higher amounts of glucose to maintain homeostasis. Glucose is required for both mental and physical processes. Since the physical demands imposed on our bodies due to higher temperatures increase, our decision-making ability gets affected.
