Essay On The Stroop Effect
The Stroop Effect
My science fair project was based on the Stroop Effect. The Stroop Effect was discovered by J. Ridley Stroop in the 1930’s. The Stroop Effect says that when you read a color word with the same ink as its color word, it will be recognized and be identified easily. When you read a color word with a different ink than its color word, it will not be recognized as easily. So you should be able to read the same color word with the same color ink faster than a color word with a different color ink. My purpose is to disprove the Stroop Effect so the question is, is the Stroop Effect true or not?
The materials I used for this project were a stopwatch, set of color words with the same color ink as the word, set of color words with different color ink than the word, a data table for results and participants. The procedure does not take very long. First make two sets of color lists, one with color words the same ink as the color word and the other has to be a set of words that have different ink as the color word. Next, make a data table to record all results. Then, you will find or identify the participants. Then, set out the first set of words. Explain to the reader that for the first set of …show more content…
The independent variable is the color of the ink. The dependent variable is the time it takes to identify the color of the ink. The constants are the list of words and the stopwatch. There was no control for this experiment. The observations I made proved the hypothesis wrong. I repeated the procedure with 18 different people. On my data table, everyone had a faster time on the first set of words. The second set of words took them longer to identify. On my graph it really shows that everyone got a faster time the first time rather than the second. Gender and age did not affect the
My science fair project was based on the Stroop Effect. The Stroop Effect was discovered by J. Ridley Stroop in the 1930’s. The Stroop Effect says that when you read a color word with the same ink as its color word, it will be recognized and be identified easily. When you read a color word with a different ink than its color word, it will not be recognized as easily. So you should be able to read the same color word with the same color ink faster than a color word with a different color ink. My purpose is to disprove the Stroop Effect so the question is, is the Stroop Effect true or not?
The materials I used for this project were a stopwatch, set of color words with the same color ink as the word, set of color words with different color ink than the word, a data table for results and participants. The procedure does not take very long. First make two sets of color lists, one with color words the same ink as the color word and the other has to be a set of words that have different ink as the color word. Next, make a data table to record all results. Then, you will find or identify the participants. Then, set out the first set of words. Explain to the reader that for the first set of …show more content…
The independent variable is the color of the ink. The dependent variable is the time it takes to identify the color of the ink. The constants are the list of words and the stopwatch. There was no control for this experiment. The observations I made proved the hypothesis wrong. I repeated the procedure with 18 different people. On my data table, everyone had a faster time on the first set of words. The second set of words took them longer to identify. On my graph it really shows that everyone got a faster time the first time rather than the second. Gender and age did not affect the