Psychology Research

For my psychology research I have used notes from my A-Level Psychology which has given me a great insight  into split personalities through my Schizophrenia notes. I have included some notes from my sketchbook that I have scanned in below.

Questionnaire Results

This weekend I have asked people to fill in my questionnaire and these are the results I have found:

FMP PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE

GRACE GENDERS

ANSWERED BY:                                           .

Describe your general mood in one word...                            Good/Happy

Describe your good mood in one word…                              Relaxed

Describe your bad mood in one word…                                Stressed

What sort of moods do you have in mornings?                       Bad

What sort of moods do you have at nights?                            Good

What makes you angry?                                                        Selfish

What makes you happy?                                                       Social

Pick which you would prefer in general…                               Black & White/Colour

Which colour do you prefer?                                                 Dull Blue

Which colour do you hate?                                                    Yellow

What’s your opinion of your mood at work? In general…      N/A

Given the choice which would you prefer to keep?                 Vision

Finish this sentence… I am happiest when…                          Social

Finish this sentence… I am saddest when…                           Working

What’s your favourite food?                                                   Unhealthy

What’s your worst food?                                                        Veg

What's your favourite drink?                                                   Alcohol

What’s your worst drink?                                                       Milk

What weather do you like the best?                                        Sun

What’s your favourite season?                                                Summer

Where do you prefer to be?                                                   Outside

Which is the most importance to you?                                     Comfort

What activity makes you the happiest?                                    Exercise

What activity makes you saddest?                                          Work

Which part of your body do you love?                                    Eyes

Which part of your body do you hate?                                    Fat Bits

Do you think that you have a split personality?                         Yes/No

Questionnaire created

Today I have created my questionnaire and printed off copies which I will be handing out for people to fill in.

This is my questionnaire:

FMP PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE

GRACE GENDERS

ANSWERED BY:                                           .

Describe your general mood in one word...                            __________

Describe your good mood in one word…                              __________

Describe your bad mood in one word…                                __________

What sort of moods do you have in mornings?                       GOOD/BAD

What sort of moods do you have at nights?                            GOOD/BAD

What makes you angry?                                                        __________

What makes you happy?                                                       __________

Pick which you would prefer in general…                               BLACK & WHITE/COLOUR

Which colour do you prefer?                                                 __________

Which colour do you hate?                                                    __________

What’s your opinion of your mood at work? In general…      __________

Given the choice which would you prefer to keep?                 HEARING/VISION

Finish this sentence… I am happiest when…                          __________

Finish this sentence… I am saddest when…                           __________

What’s your favourite food?                                                   __________

What’s your worst food?                                                        __________

What's your favourite drink?                                                   __________

What’s your worst drink?                                                       __________  

What weather do you like the best?                                        __________

What’s your favourite season?                                                SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN/WINTER

Where do you prefer to be?                                                    INSIDE/OUTSIDE

Which is the most importance to you?                                     COMFORT/IMAGE

What activity makes you the happiest?                                    __________

What activity makes you saddest?                                           __________

Which part of your body do you love?                                    __________

Which part of your body do you hate?                                    __________

Do you think that you have a split personality?                         YES/NO

Questionnaire

Today I planned out and completed my questionnaire to ask people which will help me find out what peoples opinions on their questionnaires are. I have decided to include questions based on peoples views of themselves and what makes them happy and sad.
One thing I have to figure out is who I am going to ask my questions to. I can either ask the same person the same questions every day at the same time to see the variation of their moods, but I think if the person was to know I was doing this then the questions could be the same eventually.
I think the best idea was to ask a variation of people with different ages and sex and let them give my opinion on what they think their good moods and bad moods are in one word.
Tomorrow I will create my questionnaire and print them off ready to ask people.

Statement of Intent

In my FMP I plan to use photography, typography and colour, using Photoshop for editing and experimental pieces. I will theme my project around the topic of Split Personalities, and how people are all different. To help me develop my final outcomes I will plan out my designs using thumbnails and a range of experimental image-making techniques. Primary and secondary research as well as spider diagrams will help me when I am stuck for ideas in my FMP. My development will include different working processes that include collage, ink drawings and ‘being messy’ this will help keep my images loose and stop my work becoming boring and too precise. Using the theme of Split Personalities will be helped by my knowledge of studying psychology at A-level so the notes I have from that will help with my research for the project. I will also do primary research using questionnaires to find out how people view themselves and their personalities. My final outcomes will be creative and different; this will give my work a different edge that other graphic design doesn’t have.

Project plan

Week 1-2

Primary and secondary research using questionnaires and surveys for primary and books and the internet for secondary research.

Week 3

Research actors and celebrity icons that have split personalities

Easter Break and Week 4

Draw sketches in small journal that can be used and developed for final ideas; these can then be scanned in and manipulated.

Week 5-6

Develop original sketches into collages and ‘messy’ techniques.

Week 7-8

Developed thumbnails of final ideas using images already created.

Week 9

Create and develop further final ideas.

Week10

Finish final ideas and prep for exhibition.

Picasso

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them; people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” –Picasso

Typography Workshop Day 2

Workshop on typography, lettering and Layout.

Design a series of Typographical Layouts from a choice of idioms / phrases.

Idioms: a combination of words with a special meaning that cannot be deduced from its separate parts.

2 CAN PLAY THAT GAME

When you retaliate against someone in the same manner that they hurt you.

DOWN IN THE DUMPS

A gloomy, melancholy state of mind; depression.

LARGER THAN LIFE

A very strong or lively personality that impresses people very much.

STUCK IN A RUT

In a boring lifestyle that never changes.

TURN A BLIND EYE

To knowingly refuse to acknowledge something which you know to be real.

NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK

Very difficult, if not impossible to find among everything around it.

VANISH INTO THIN AIR 

To disappear without trace.

KEEP AN OPEN MIND

To wait until you know all the facts before forming an opinion or making a judgment.

FALLING ON DEAF EARS

To be ignored by the persons they were intended for.

ON CLOUD NINE 

A state of elation or great happiness.