An Experiment to Investigate a Variation of the Stroop Effect and How It Works on Non Colour Related Words. Essay Example
An experiment to investigate a variation of the Stroop effect and how it works on non colour related words.
Abstract
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate a variation of the Stroop effect. The experiment will include non colour related words as well as colour related words and these words will be written in colours that are not related to the words written. There are 20 participants and they will be shown both conditions in different order and they are required to say the colour of the ink and not the words written. They will be timed as to how long it takes to say the correct colour. There will be 30 words on each condition. The results showed there was no significant effect on colour related words and non colour related words.
Introduction
The stroop effect was an experiment which was first published in English in 1935 and the experiment was named after John Ridley Stroop. The experiment is a demonstration of the reaction time to the participants saying the colour that the word is written in rather than the colour that is the word. For example the word red would be printed in blue and the word blue would have been printed in red. The naming of the colour of the word would take longer than actually naming the word as the automatic response would be to name the word. (See Appendix 1 for a copy of word lists). So the participants would take longer as they need to pay more attention to the colour that the word is written in. The brain cannot process everything at one time. Poser suggests the size of the attention spotlight determines the amount of information processed (cited in Edgar, 2007). This is what is known as a controlled response. The experiment was conducted to measure people’s response times in saying the colour of the word written and not the worded colour. The participants were also given words written in coloured ink which were not related to the colour in any form. They were colour neutral words. Broadbent suggests there is a
Abstract
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate a variation of the Stroop effect. The experiment will include non colour related words as well as colour related words and these words will be written in colours that are not related to the words written. There are 20 participants and they will be shown both conditions in different order and they are required to say the colour of the ink and not the words written. They will be timed as to how long it takes to say the correct colour. There will be 30 words on each condition. The results showed there was no significant effect on colour related words and non colour related words.
Introduction
The stroop effect was an experiment which was first published in English in 1935 and the experiment was named after John Ridley Stroop. The experiment is a demonstration of the reaction time to the participants saying the colour that the word is written in rather than the colour that is the word. For example the word red would be printed in blue and the word blue would have been printed in red. The naming of the colour of the word would take longer than actually naming the word as the automatic response would be to name the word. (See Appendix 1 for a copy of word lists). So the participants would take longer as they need to pay more attention to the colour that the word is written in. The brain cannot process everything at one time. Poser suggests the size of the attention spotlight determines the amount of information processed (cited in Edgar, 2007). This is what is known as a controlled response. The experiment was conducted to measure people’s response times in saying the colour of the word written and not the worded colour. The participants were also given words written in coloured ink which were not related to the colour in any form. They were colour neutral words. Broadbent suggests there is a