An Experiment to Investigate Stroop Effect Student name: Kristijan Kristic Candidate number: 1466-008 Type of Study: Experiment Subject and Level: Psychology SL Date of Submission: 14th December 2010 Word count: 1498 Table of contents ABSTRACT 2 INTRODUCTION 3-4 METHOD: Design 5 METHOD: Participants 5 METHOD: Materials 6 METHOD: Procedure 6 RESULTS 7-8 DISCUSSION 9-10 REFERENCE 11 APPENDIX I- Consent form
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Colours Imagine a world without colours. If you see only shades of grey around you‚ wouldn’t you find it dull and boring? Would it make you feel gloomy and that everything is ugly and uninteresting? I am quite certain you would say yes to all these questions. We humans love colours. We love colours because colours make our world beautiful. All things on earth have their own colours and hues. Even things of the same type may have many shades and colours. Flowers‚ for example‚ come
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Importance of Colour Published on May 18‚ 2007 at 4:59 PM Colour is an important part of our everyday lives. We judge how healthy we‚ our crops and our food are‚ with the help of colour. Our choice of decoration‚ furnishing and clothing is strongly influenced by colour. Colour is involved in almost every aspect of our lives. People and colour perception The human eye is the means that we use to detect colour and it is very sensitive at detecting colour and differences in colour. However
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n this study‚ the Stroop effect experiment will be carried out on matching and mismatching test. The Stroop effect experiment was named after Ridely Stroop‚ published in 1935‚ and the purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate the difference in reaction time of reading the name of the coloured words and naming the ink of the colour. Not only does it record the reaction time‚ but it also aims to measure individuals focused attention‚ learning and memory (Stroop‚ 1935). However‚ when reading through
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The Stroop Effect has been widely researched. It explains how a cognitive process might interfere with another cognitive process (MacLeod‚ 1991). This effect works because associations already made in the brain inhibit recall abilities for new associations (Stroop‚ 1935). The Stroop Effect is relevant because it can explain what cognitive processes are automatic compared to controlled processes. An automatic process is naturally fast and does not need conscious attention to be accomplished‚
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how they sometimes have a brain farts‚ well this activity does that exact thing. The “Stroop Effect” is a spectacular phenomenon that makes a person say the color of a word when that exact word is also a color. Although people may believe it is easy it is a bit more difficult than believed to be. This is due to the fact that the word itself has a giant impact on the ability People have to actually say the word. Therefore the difference in the information makes complications for the human brain and
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EFFECTS OF PRACTICE ON STROOP CONGRUITY John S. Monahan Central Michigan University‚ monah1js@mail.cmich.edu Abstract Automaticity‚ both reading and response‚ response competition‚ translation models‚ and the imbalance/uncertainty model of the Stroop effect were investigated. Two participants received four weeks of key press practice using standard Stroop stimuli. Tests of RT to standard Stroop‚ Single colored letter‚ and Stroop dilution stimuli were conducted before and after each week of
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names Mitchelle Suarez PSYC. 3450 SUMMER 2014 PROF. MEREDITH ABSTRACT The Stroop experiment focuses on the interference of a person’s reaction time on a given task. Certain tasks can be performed with more accuracy due to the fact that our brain becomes conditioned to react automatically after exposure of the stimuli. In this particular experiment‚ eight-teen college students underwent the Stroop experiment in individualized laboratory rooms. Four students were male and fourteen were
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Stroop Effect 4/12/2011 CAL STATE FULLERTON Abstract This research is designed to study attention and automatic processing of the brain by replicating the Stroop effect experiments that was conducted before. The participants included 12 female and 6 male students from Cal State Fullerton. Coglab‚ a virtual lab‚ was used to conduct the experiment. On each trial they were shown a word (RED‚ GREEN
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- 07/11/03 Reaction times related to congruence in a Stroop test of undergraduate students 2 ABSTRACT The ’Stroop effect’‚ a measure of interference in a reaction time task‚ was investigated. Twenty undergraduate students of mixed age and gender were each presented with 48 coloured words in turn. These were divided into 16 of each of 3 levels of congruence. The time required to identify the colour of each stimulus was recorded‚ and related to whether the word presented identified‚ contrasted
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