Essays on Stroop Effect

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Introduction

Technological innovations allow for the creation of new educational materials that are in a different format to attract more users. Usually, these materials come in the form of games. Among those are metacognition activities that enhance one’s ability to think critically and apply the appropriate skills or insights to the task presented. This can be specifically applied to games that fosters a stroop effect. Stroop effect suggests that as one age, their brain’s function in relation to reaction to time becomes gradually slower when presented with conflicting information.

Part One

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Abstract

Three conditions were used to evaluate a replica of the Stroop effect in an experiemt where 287 participants took place. The experiment was carried out on university undergraduate students selected randomly irrespective of gender. The aim of the experiment was to replicate the basic Stroop effect. The experiment was guided by three hypotheses. First, Colour naming will be fastest when the word is a colour name and it is presented in the colour it names. Second, colour naming will be slowest when the word is a colour names and it is presented in a colour other than that it names, and third colour ...

Introduction

The phenomenon of having longer time to react to the not matching words and word colors is known as the Stroop Effect. It is used by professors of psychology to demonstrate the failure of choice of the selective attention.

Discussion

A study was carried out in 1935 by J.R. Stroop, the main aim of which was to test the effects of automaticity, on reading to be specific. Reading was chosen due to being more automatic and quicker than naming colors, moreover color naming can suffer from involuntary reading, while as reading is not affected by conflicting print colors. The experiment ...

Introduction

Attentional control has been a constant source of interest for psychologists in order to determine the relation between this phenomenon and attantional bias. The significance in determining the threat sources that can lead to attentional bias resides in the fact that attentional bias is considered to be the cause of anxiety. Based on Derryberry & Reed’s study, “Anxiety-Related Attentional Biases and Their Regulation by Attentional Control”, this paper presents a thesis proposal that will aim to illustrate how attentional control contributes to anticipating the potential stress factors that might be responsible for the development of anxiety. Primarily the discussion should ...

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The colors from words that are colored and the colored words’ word patterns based on integral Stroop stimuli were provided with time advantages adjacent to each other. The experiment had to either establish the pertinent measurement color or word through a series of four keys that were randomly colored in each assessment. Outcomes of the experiment demonstrated proportioned associations involving the word and the color job. Therefore, the word can manipulate the extremely attuned color key reaction as could the color in word naming which is the actual reading. This initial kind of interference could not be translational and could ...

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The Stroop effect involves demonstrating a longer reaction time inherent in performing a more complicated task. The effects of conflict processing on reaction time is thought to be significant; the higher the level of conflict processing, the longer it takes for someone to react to that conflict. The current study measures response times based on four different exercises involving the reading of numbers and row length. The third exercise includes two levels of complexity (counting and number identification), as opposed to a single level of complexity with the remaining exercises. Eight pairs of subjects are tested for reaction time based on these ...

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The current study measures response times based on four different exercises involving the reading of numbers and row length. The Stroop effect is measured using mean reaction times to each sheet, and the t-tests for each comparison are calculated. According to the results, response time measurably decreases when order and number are shuffled.

Introduction

Cognitive conflict processing involves the selection of one stimulus among competing stimuli, requiring the ability to selectively attend to particular features in an environment. The Stroop effect is an experiment that is intended to determine one's ability to ignore conflicting stimuli while focusing on one single ...