My name is Iloradanon Efimoff and I'm in the
Applied Psychology program here at Douglas
college
I'm interested in psychology I guess
because my first semester here Douglas
I took an intro Psyc course when I
was just
exploring kind of the different areas I
was interested in and it really just
peaked my interest
my teacher was absolutely hilarious
and he was really personable and it just
made me want to take my second course in
Psych with him and it just kind of
snowballed from that point because I'm
in the Honors Program here at Douglas
college I am doing some research
and basically what I'm looking at is if
caffeine actually helps adolescents and
young adults
make better decisions so specifically I am
interested in whether
Drinking coffee in the morning or
having tea in the morning can actually
help you make less risky and less
impulsive decisions so basically I have
students come in and they either get
a placebo or a caffeine tablets and then
they have to do a series of tasks
when students come in they're playing a
game in which they
either win a lot of money and risk
losing a lot of money
where they win a little bit of money
and risk losing a little bit of money
so based on the literature and the
research that we've already reading gone
through
we're expecting that caffeine will
actually reduce impulsive decision
making so
it's a little bit of almost seems
contradictory to people when they think
about that
but at the same time it almost makes
sense because a lot of people talk about
you know "Oh I can't get my day started without my
cup of coffee or students are huge
consumers a caffeine and oftentimes they
say "you know it helps me think better
helps me stay awake in class
after Douglas I wanna go to graduate
school get my PhD and become an
instructor at a post-secondary
institution
I think one of the main things that
Douglas has helped me with is the fact that
it's a really small communities so I've
had the opportunity to network with a
ton of
my different professors which is going
to help with finding a supervisor in
the future and it's going to help with
me building my own professional
network as well
