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How does color affect the testing environment?

Shauna McDowell

Baldwin

Period 1

11/6/2020

Word Count: 562

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Shauna McDowell

Baldwin

Physical Science

1st Period

11/6/2020

There are many different ways that the environment and color can change how long and short it

is needed to execute a test or quiz. Numerous unalike colors can change your mood and how you

feel. Different colors mean very different things and some colors can make you more focused

and some can make you less focused. Your behavior can relate to what your mood is and where

you currently are. So if the color of a room can affect your behavior, can it affect test scores?

LED lights are a solid-state lighting where a semiconductor turns electricity to light,

without using thermal radiation. They are a brand new way of lighting and are flexible and easy

to operate on low DC power (Staff). Scientists in the 1900’s started looking at different colored

LED lights. Then in 1961 two inventors created the red light, the only problem was that it was

invisible to the human eye. Finally in 1972, M. George Craford invented the first LED lights

that could be seen by humans (Short). Different types of LEDs can have different levels of

efficiency (Staff).

Colors and colored lights can affect how you feel and your mood. The color red can make

your heart beat faster and blue light can make it beat slower. On different claims this will

frequently find different effects on the human body(Here). Since variations of colors can change

your feelings, we should definitely consider choosing colors that exemplify our personality.
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Warmer colors give off more of a feeling that is cozy and comfortable, such as red, orange and

yellow. More neutral colors like white, black and gray can have a warmer or cooler vibration.

Then finally cooler colors like green, blue and purple can make a room look larger or feel colder

than reality does(Lee). Different types of color therapy can help distress or calm you down, also

just by changing the color of your room can help with attentiveness to learn (Wurtman).

Color is an insanely influential tool that can be used to influence your mood and even

influence psychological reactions. Different colors can relate to or obtain different blood

pressures, and can increase metabolism and eyestrain. Isaac Newton found out that each color

has its own stream and cannot be separated into a different color. So it can be combined to form

another color but can’t be two different colors together at once. If you are an artist or paint, you

can tell that different colors can be produced into another color (Cherry). Chromotherapy or

color therapy can be used on the premise that coloured lights can be used to correct physical

ailments. Many colors can help different animals survive or help cure skin diseases (Effect).

So in research it shows that it is possible for your mood or behavior to change, by just the

change in color. The change in mood can just be that you aren't feeling good or just didn’t have

the best day. But the color in the room can make you feel happier than a more plain landscape.

There are also so many ways that LED lights in different colors can help you distress and

become cured from different illnesses. Color can be a feeling or something that is needed to be

cured, so the color of a room can affect how you feel and potentially test scores.
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“The Effect Of Coloured Light On The Human Body.” ​DmLights Blog,​ 19 June 2013,
www.dmlights.com/blog/effect-coloured-light-on-human-body/.

Lee, Tonya. “Is Your Room Color Affecting Your Mood?” ​The Spruce,​ Dotdash, 6 May 2020,
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Wurtman, Richard J. “How LEDs Are Changing Human Behavior.” ​Display Sales,​ Display
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