The Effect of Poor Lightning Condition on Spelling Performance in 3rd Year Psychology Students
Running head: EFFECTS OF POOR LIGHTNING CONDITION
The Effect of Poor Lightning Condition on
Spelling Performance In 3rd year Psychology Students
Cachapero, Luis Billy
Comia, Bam
De Leon, Hannah
Del Rosario, Abbey
Labuguen, Jensee
Litong, Ed Howard
Salazar, Chevali
Sunga, Melissa
San Beda College
Abstract
The study was conducted to assess the disruption of cognitive performance such as spelling proficiency in a classroom with poor lighting condition. The participants were 31 students, who participated for course credit. It was hypothesized that participants undergoing the spelling test with poor lighting would report low results. The result of the mean is 4.87 while the standard deviation resulted to 1.91. We conclude that the results indicated that cognitive process such as vocabulary usage is greatly affected by poor lighting condition and is an affective instrument for determining how the subjects will respond to the given situation.
The Effect of Poor Lightning Condition on
Spelling Performance In 3rd year Psychology Students Vision is the ability of the brain and eye to detect electromagnetic waves within the visible range of light that makes them interpret this image as "sight." Humans are a diurnal species (active in daytime) usually exposed to light while engaged in cognitive tasks. Light not only guides performance on these tasks through vision but also exerts non-visual effects that are mediated (Vandewalle, Maquet & Dijk, 2009). People also can easily determine which changes in darkness and lightness are due to the physical properties of objects and the changes in illumination (Goldstein, 2008). The same research conducted by Vandewalle et al. (2009) also demonstrated that recent advancement studies ion vision which demonstrates that the wavelength, duration and intensity of light exposure adjust brain responses to (non-visual) cognitive tasks and adapts to different conditions. A similar study entitled
The Effect of Poor Lightning Condition on
Spelling Performance In 3rd year Psychology Students
Cachapero, Luis Billy
Comia, Bam
De Leon, Hannah
Del Rosario, Abbey
Labuguen, Jensee
Litong, Ed Howard
Salazar, Chevali
Sunga, Melissa
San Beda College
Abstract
The study was conducted to assess the disruption of cognitive performance such as spelling proficiency in a classroom with poor lighting condition. The participants were 31 students, who participated for course credit. It was hypothesized that participants undergoing the spelling test with poor lighting would report low results. The result of the mean is 4.87 while the standard deviation resulted to 1.91. We conclude that the results indicated that cognitive process such as vocabulary usage is greatly affected by poor lighting condition and is an affective instrument for determining how the subjects will respond to the given situation.
The Effect of Poor Lightning Condition on
Spelling Performance In 3rd year Psychology Students Vision is the ability of the brain and eye to detect electromagnetic waves within the visible range of light that makes them interpret this image as "sight." Humans are a diurnal species (active in daytime) usually exposed to light while engaged in cognitive tasks. Light not only guides performance on these tasks through vision but also exerts non-visual effects that are mediated (Vandewalle, Maquet & Dijk, 2009). People also can easily determine which changes in darkness and lightness are due to the physical properties of objects and the changes in illumination (Goldstein, 2008). The same research conducted by Vandewalle et al. (2009) also demonstrated that recent advancement studies ion vision which demonstrates that the wavelength, duration and intensity of light exposure adjust brain responses to (non-visual) cognitive tasks and adapts to different conditions. A similar study entitled
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