DUI Task Force Experiment
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DUI Task Force Experiment
Pre-Test
As part of the consequences of drinking alcohol, it is associated with impairment in judgment especially in vision (Mendralla & Grosshandler, 2012). Consequently, when a person consumes liquor that exceeds the legal limit, he/she is bound to make some visual mistakes. As such, a popular brand will be selected so that all the subjects are exposed to an equal percentage of alcohol levels to their bodies.
Random Assignment
People who have attained the legal drinking age will be identified from a group of passers by and ushered into a room. Their composition will include members of both genders, both young and old. In particular, consent forms will be signed by them authorizing their voluntary participation (Myers & Hansen, 2012). They will then be divided into two; those who drink and those who do not. The former will be offered an equal number of beer bottles and instructed to note the alphabet that would be pointed at by an instructor from an alphabet board placed at a reasonable distance. This would be done at certain intervals after which they could resume their drinking. Having known the number of bottles that are allowed by law, some of them would be encouraged to drink further as well. A tally of their scores would then be compiled after a while.
Treatment
Anyone who exhibits drunken behavior will be offered a water bottle and persuaded to switch drinks in order to examine its effect on his/her eyesight.
Post-Test
Assuming that all the individuals were in good health, anyone
who was not under the influence should be able to identify the alphabets
referred to by the instructor for the length of the study. Likewise, the
drinkers should do the same while the bottle count was still low. However, once
a specific number of bottles have been imbibed, the subject would tend to show
erratic behavior through the wrongful determination of the desired alphabet. Similarly,
the use of water after a period of drinking should reveal a correction of this phenomenon
(Lindsay, 2009). Nevertheless, this experiment would be vulnerable to the
drinking history of an individual because a longer one helps to develop alcohol
tolerance.
References
Lindsay, B. (2009). Stay Healthy, be Happy, Live Longer, in Whatever Way Suits You Best. Ireland.
Mendralla, V., & Grosshandler, J. (2012). Drinking and Driving, Now What? New York: Rosen Pub.
Myers, A., & Hansen, C. (2012). Experimental psychology. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth.