The results suggest that participants took shorter time to read the nonsense words than that of reading the incongruent words. These findings maintain the hypothesis for the Stroop colour word task. Comparison of Reaction Times for the Stroop Colour Word Task The Stroop effect was discovered by John Ridley Stroop (1935), involving cognitive interference in colour-word processing tasks and continues to captivate experimenting in psychology to this day. Cattell in 1886 was doing his own dissertation under Whundt, and this influenced Stroop's research some 50 years earlier by reporting
13 Discussion Pg. 13-14 References Pg.15 Appendices Pg. 16-17 Abstract This report is based on the experiment conducted to investigate the Stroop effect which is named after Ridley Stroop; a psychologist who observes that it takes people longer and with possible mistakes in reading aloud the name of colours when written in a different colour (incongruent word) than when it’s written in its own colour (congruent word). For example if you write red using blue ink it takes more time to read blue aloud than when writing red using red ink. As Brown and Warner (1915) have pointed out, the difference in speed in reading names of colours and in naming colours may be accounted for the difference in experience called the "automatic word recognition hypothesis" or, as others have claimed, certain mental activities happen automatically even when not consciously stimulated by the subject.
Participants were then asked to name the ink color and their response times for each list were measured in seconds. The results showed that the stroop effect interference extended to color-related words, providing further evidence for the interference and costs of the automatic processes of attention.8/8 Introduction Although we are able to sense a huge amount of information, not all of it is processed. Through a process of selection known as attention, only some pieces of information are selected for further processing by cognitive resources. The reason why we need to reduce incoming information may be due to a limited capacity to process information. Kahneman (as cited in Edgar, 2007) explains it in the limited capacity theory of attention.
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Results had a short narrative, and three sub headings; conceptual classification, difference in forgiveness perception, and relationship between forgiveness and FMPC scales. The summary and discussion summarized the results and delved a bit further by subheading a section dealing with limitations and potential directions for future research. There was a short conclusion after the summary and then the APA formatted reference page. The following sections have critiqued the title and introduction, methodology, results and discussion, as well as including evaluation of the article. Section Two: Critique of Title and Introduction Title The article on forgiveness and perceptions by Orathinkal et al (2008), had a title that sufficiently specified what it was about.
Then the second list of words, which are words not corresponded with the colour and is the controlled process, these are read aloud with the errors and the time taken recorded and compared to the first set of data. These results can prove the hypothesis was supported and that controlled processes are more prone to thinking rather than just doing This experiment has had the aim of testing the effects of automatic and controlled processes in the Stroop effect. The Stroop effect demonstrates performing a controlled process task compared to an automatic process task and outlines the extended time taken to complete the task. An automatic process is a task or process that doesn’t involve much attention or effort to be performed. A controlled process does require undivided attention and an amount of mental effort is usually needed.
The Stroop Effect and Reaction Time Johanna F. Hermida Florida Atlantic University Abstract We are looking to why the process of reading congruent stimuli can be facilitated by automatic process or interfered by it. The purpose of this experiment is to study the reaction time that the participants take to complete each task by replicating the previously carried out Stroop Effect by using numbers. 118 students taking a psychology class participated in the experiment. Participants were presented with 4 Stroop experiment task sheet which consists of four parts which was the control, neutral, congruent and incongruent conditions; what we are measuring is the reaction time that the participants take to complete the task, by manipulating the 4 conditions. Time was taken and recorded for each participant to say out the number of signs in the control condition and to say out the number of numbers in the neutral, congruent and incongruent conditions.
Abstract This paper examines the effects of the type of loci on memory recall. The participants, 667 undergraduate students from the University of Western Sydney, were randomly allocated to the “university” loci group or the “home” loci group. They were asked to recall words that were read out to them by the experimenter and were tested on the number of words recalled correctly with and without the use of loci. Results did not support previous findings and the hypothesis; that different types of loci have affects on memory recall. However the hypothesis that the method of loci improves memory recall was supported.
Almost ten years ago a man by the name of David Wertheimer wrote an article in which he claimed that proper grammar was becoming obsolete. The author states that: “We can design and build text a better way that works across numerous communication platforms, solving the problems of built-in obsolescence and user lockout while paving the way toward a far more useful, more accessible, and more speedily shared grammar.” and that “After a long struggle, we can finally employ techniques that guarantee the interpretation of our new grammar.” Wertheimer (2002). From the invention of the
Moreover perfectionism explained as setting goals that are out of range and as a structure in which it causes the person to experience negative feelings as a consequence (Frost, Marten, Lahart & Rosenblate, 1990). Early conceptualizations of perfectionism suggested perfectionism to be a unidimensional construct (Burns, 1980). In contrast, recent views have stressed that perfectionism is multidimensional in nature (Terry- Short, Owens, Slade & Dewey, 1995). Recent research has shown that two major dimensions of perfectionism can be