In this lab, a thrower tossed beanbags until they hit the target five consecutive times. In Part 1, the thrower did not wear the altered reality goggles, but put them on for Part 2. After the thrower got five consecutive tosses into the target, they removed their goggles for Part 3. Part 2 took the longest to get five consecutive beanbags on the target. This is because the goggles altered the wearer’s vision by 10 degrees. Because the wearer sees everything to the left or right of its actual location, the sensory input the wearer is getting is not accurate. The first part of this lab took the fewest tosses because our brain was using established pathways and could trust the sensory input it was getting from the eyes. The brain must find it easier to use the established pathways. Our brain was unused to thinking 10 …show more content…
This might have been because we used different goggles than we had on the first day or we stood on the target entirely too angled. Our data may be different than other groups for a multitude of reasons. For one, the size of the target may be drastically different. Other reasons could be the different goggles or how the beanbag bounces out of the target. One of the groups ended up with double vision because one of the lenses got tilted. Next time, we could potentially all measure the sizes of our targets or use the same goggles for both days to avoid these experimental errors.
My partner’s and my data were very similar. For both of us, it took up to 25 tosses to get five consecutive tosses on the target while wearing goggles and less than 11 throws to get on the target in the first part of the lab. This might have been because both of us were unused to the altered reality, but already had established pathways to throw the beanbag without the goggles. We had already established muscle memory to