1. INTRODUCTION SUBJECTS Subjects will be recruited from a local shelter. I am looking for a total of 24 subjects which will than be divided into two group the control and experimental group. All together there will be 12 people in the control group which are the people that would not be playing the game and 12 people in the experimental group which are the people that will be playing the game. They will be recruited in a shelter by taking a 2 question survey. One question will asked if they would like to participate in the study and the next question is from a scale of 1-3 how much do you want to better your life. One being you do not want to, 2 is neutral and 3 is you want to. The age group ranges from 18 to 30 years old. There gender, race or ethnicity does not matter in this study. APPARATUS Players were score from a scale of 1-10. One being extremely bad and 10 being extremely good.. There are a few rules to this game. Number one, each player is not allowed to move on to the next task without completing the task before it. Number two, no cheating. When caught cheating the player will have to wait 5 minutes before continuing the task. Throughout the game players are given the opportunity to collect fake money (figure 3) from each task completed. Each card has a certain amount of money that will be awarded. The resources can be spent by collecting the fake money from each task to trade it in for something they may need to help him survive. MATERIALS The outcome of my experiment turned out great. I did not use homeless people but I used my friends. They understand the instructions well and followed all the rules. Performance wise they did great. The skill that was intended to accomplish was very successful. Some of the task was challenging but they still end up mastering them. I used a total of 24 friends at my church. There were 12 in the control group and 12 in the experimental group. The people in the experimental group played the game for 3 days so that they can understand the purpose of the game. I then waited about one week and decided to test my game again but this time I included the control group. I only collected data for one task card which is the one in Figure 1 and 2. I found out that the mean was 9 for my experimental group and 5.636364 for the control group. Each person were scored from a scale one 1-10 on the skill. The scores that I collected for the experimental group were 9,9,10,9,9,10,8,8,9,8,10,9 and the control group I got 4,6,4,4,7,5,6,6,7,6,7,5. When I did a T test I got 1.80065E-08 as an result. Which means that there were a difference between the control group and the experimental group. RESULTS CONCLUSIONS I concluded that my hypothesis was true. People that are motivated by some type of reward would show better determination to better themselves. As shown in figure 4 there was an huge difference in the means. It proves that my game works and that it do help improve people skills. DISCUSSION My experiment solves a major problem in psychology because there are studies that talks down on homeless people. They believe that homeless people decline in behavior rather than incline. They believe that once a person becomes homeless then, they learn to depend on people for survival rather than themselves. But by this experiment it shows that just like everyone else homeless people are motivated by something. To perfect a skill there must be some type of reward place to motive someone to do something. For example, people would not work if they were not getting paid. They are motivated to work because of the money that they are getting rewarded. Solving this problem can further advance the field because people will start to reach out for homeless people. Also homeless people will also try to reach out to other homeless people as well. When one homeless person makes it out of homelessness, they might come back to try to help others out of homelessness. Also people love to observe others. If they see one person making a better living for themselves then they will build more hope to one day better themselves as well. POTENTIAL PROBLEMS For my study a potential problem may be to get homeless people to sign up for my game. Also if the subjects don’t know the area they live in that can be another problem. IMPLICATIONS An implication of my study will be that the homeless people would not take the game serious enough. Another implication would be that the task that was given onto them may not develop the skill that’s intended. REFERENCES The learning objective of this game is to teach homeless people that live in shelter different skills that can be useful for a particular type of job or to help improve their abilities. These skills can be beneficial to them and they can choose if they want to use it to help them in the future. The primary objective of this game is to teach homeless players ways to broaden their skills so that they can better there lives. The game objective reinforces the learning objective because both are trying to achieve the same purpose. HYPOTHESIS H1: Homeless people that are motivated by some type of reward would show better determination to better themselves. Jewel Eastman Department of Behavioral Sciences Rise to your Ability – The Scavenger Hunt TASK CARD Location: Neighborhood Task: Walk around your neighborhood and convince 5 people on the street to give back to the community by donating can goods to a local church. Reward: 5 RA dollars Location: Neighborhood Task: Walk around your neighborhood and convince 5 people on the street to give back to the community by donating can goods to a local church. Reward: 5 RA dollars The skill that is expected to build in this task is their social skills. Koegel, P., Burnam, M. A., & Baumohl, J. (1996). The causes of homelessness. Homelessness in America, 202, 775-1322. Lippert, A. M., & Lee, B. A. (2015). Stress, coping, and mental health differences among homeless people. Sociological Inquiry, 85(3), 343-374. doi:10.1111/soin.12080 Mallett, S., Rosenthal, D., & Keys, D. (2005). Young people, drug use and family conflict: Pathways into homelessness. Journal of adolescence, 28(2), 185-199. Morrell-Bellai, T., & Goering, P. (2000). Becoming and remaining homeless: A qualitative investigation. Issues in mental health nursing, 21(6), 581-604. Rosenthal, D., Mallett, S., & Myers, P. (2006). Why do homeless young people leave home?. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 30(3), 281-285. Rossi, P. H. (1991). Down and out in America: The origins of homelessness. University of Chicago Press. METHODS RA Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4