In AP Psychology there are a lot of fun or interesting presentations, however the one that currently has everyone’s attention is the upcoming unethical trails. The unethical trails are a multitude of psychology experiments that have been labeled unethical by the APA (American Psychological Association.) Those experiments are given to a small group of students, and those students present those experiments, trying to make their experiment seem the most unethical. However in the initial stage there are two groups going up against each other in a trial, with the teacher, Mr. Bedingfield, being the judge and the students being the jury.
In this trial, each team gets two witnesses and an opening and closing statement. Each team has their trial where they prove they are the most unethical and they get to question the other team’s trial. These trials will be starting in February and the first two groups going are, Elephant on LSD (Tusko) vs. Willow Brook. Good wide sites for overviews of the experiments are Elephant on LSD, and Willow Brook.
However, junior Lola Romero, who has Asch Conformity which is one of the later trails, has stated what she’s working on: to try and get ahead of Cats Hubble and Wiesel. For Romero this is an uphill battle. In the first round of the trials, she won in a landslide against Tony LaMdrid. Romero has quite a strong presentation.
Romero, shows how she’s been preparing by stating, “I’ve been doing a lot of research about my topic and even more research on the topic I’m against so I’m prepared for cross examination.“
This is impressive, especially because she’s one of the last trails to go. This by itself shows it is going to be a close call between the two presentations.
Mr. Bedingfield stated, “Three groups show more potential than others based on the first round. However that doesn’t mean anything considering trials, it’s all about effort and time. Those who put in effort originally have more of advantage.”
These trails seem to be a hot topic, especially with AP psychology students. The trails will be starting February 4th and have some of the best presentations AP Psychology has seen. Overall this will be a fun and eventful project for psychology students and anyone else involved in the trails.
