Tittle: The Stroop Effects theories and explanations Jonathan James Greenriver Community College Tittle: The Stroop Effects theories and explanations Research The research conducted is to present an observation of the participating subject’s behaviors during the test taking and then to make interferences from their behaviors to explain what is going on behind the scenes (mental processes). The subjects involved in this experiment are from three different age groups. Respectably
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hinders one’s ability to reach a desired conclusion or response. Interference’s effect was the main source of study behind the Stroop task (Stroop‚ 1935). The origins of the Stroop task came from the titular researcher determining to what end can contrasting stimuli‚ in this case the name of a color and the color of ink used for that word‚ interfere with one another (Stroop‚ 1935). This interference was due to automaticity (Stroop‚ 1935). Automaticity is the cognitive function of reacting to a stimulus
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The Effect of Stroop Level of Interference on the Reaction Time Queens College‚ CUNY Abstract The aim of this study was to assess whether Stroop interference did indeed replicate with modern day students. Undergraduate students sample was obtained consisting of 12 females and 6 males‚ who are students in experimental psychology class. The independent variable was the condition of the stimuli with 3 levels (low‚ medium and high interference conditions). The dependable
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Stroop effect and reading process Abstract This study evaluated the effect of congruency of color ink and color name on reading process. The 30 participants of the experiment were assigned to sets 1(a condition wherein congruent color names and ink color were presented first before the incongruent set of words‚ and 2 (reverse of set 1) by random selection. Participants were called in the laboratory two at a time‚ one of them from set 1 participants and the other from set
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The stroop effect can be tested many different ways. John Ridley Stroop was the founder of the stroop effect in 1935. Some people came up with different ways to test the stroop effect. For males and females‚ the stroop effect can be different based on their perception of colors and their reaction times. The stroop effect is known by many people but they usually don’t know what it really is. The point of this experiment was to see whether different genders have a faster reaction time. “ Female
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Report The Stroop Effect University of Houston – Downtown The Stroop Effect The Stroop Effect is a psychological effect that was first wrote about in 1935 by a psychologist of the same name‚ John Ridley Stroop. In this experiment‚ John Stroop studied and compared subjects reading a list of words that were printed in black and had the same group of subjects read the same list of words in incongruent colors. Stroop didn’t find very
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Abstract The aim of this experiment is to study autonomic processes by replicating the previously carried out Stroop effect by using numbers. A number of 180 random participants aged in between 18-89 were recruited to participate in this experiment. Participants were presented with a stroop experiment task sheet which consists of three parts which was the control‚ congruent and incongruent conditions. Time was taken and recorded for each participant to say out the number of stars in the control condition
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Stroop Effect (Blindsight) Stroop effect is a good project to do if one wants to know more about the eyes and brains connection. The most commonly used example is what is known as the Stroop Test‚ which compares the time needed to name colors when they are printed in an ink color that matches their name (e.g.‚ green‚ yellow‚ red‚ blue‚ brown‚ purple) with the time needed to name the same colors when they are printed in an ink color that does not match their name (e.g.‚ blue‚ red‚ purple‚ green
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The Stroop Effect Experiment In 1935‚ John Ridley Stroop conducted the original experiments of the stroop effect. The stroop effect is an effect that occurs when individuals attempt to name the color of words that spell out a conflicting color. Stroop reported an interference effect when individuals were asked to report the color of words presented to them. Stroop collected his data by showing his participants a sheet of paper with printed words on it. He then asked his participant’s to name the
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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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