INTRODUCTION-

In cognitive psychology we are concerned with the functions of the mind. The
concept of cognition includes processes such as memory and attention. Our
cognitive abilities are sometimes disrupted by different kinds of interference.
This interference in many cases can influence our reaction time to different
situations. This is also known as the Stroop effect. It is named after the
psychologist John Ridley Stroop whose mainstream research was under the
area of cognition and interference. Through this stroop effect we are able to
asses a humans attention capability and skills in addition to their processing
abilities.

In the initial experiments done by J.R. Stroop in the 1935, participants were
told to read out different lists of colors as fast as possible. In the first list
different color words were written in black ink (For example “black” was
written in black ink). The second list contained same words but written in
incongruent colors (For example “green” was written in blue ink). The third
list didn’t have words but had patches of colors which had to be read out. The
results showed that the participants took most time in reading out the second
list which had words written in incongruent ink colors. These results were
explained due to the interference caused on the regular reading patterns, as
our minds only understands the semantic definition of the words (for instance
if we read word “green” then we think of color green) but after reading it our
minds alternatively checks the color on the word (which is some other color
than “green”) and this causes interference as this isn’t a regular procedure.

NULL HYPOTHESIS:

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS:
METHOD:
DESIGN:
In this experiment we used the repeated measures design as our experiment
included same samples both in the control and the experimental group. The
purpose of choosing this design is that it gets rid of the problems associated
with participant variability. Also because we needed to see how the
independent variable would affect the sample performance in this
experiments task.

All participants signed a consent form. Ethical consideration were followed as

each participant was briefed before the experiment and debriefed. The
participants were informed about their right to withdraw from the
experiment at any moment. The participant weren’t harmed physically or
psychologically. And the anonymity of the participants was protected.

PARTICIPANTS:
The participants were chosen through convenience sampling as we chose
based on the availability of any adolescent IB school students and also as it is a
fast way to gather data and do research. The participants were asked to
participate and those who agreed where told to meet in the classroom where
the experiment took place indivisually. All the samples were from the same
school from the age group of 15-18. Both genders were used. The samples all
had similar background. There were a total of 10 samples used in the
experiment.

MATERIALS:
 Consent Form
 Briefing Note
 Debriefing Note
 Stopwatch
 Sheet 1(20 Colors name written in black)
 Sheet 2(20 Colors name written in different variation of colors)

PROCEDURES:
In the first step I choose my participants using convenience samplings. After
this each participant was brought individually to a quiet room. Subsequently
the participant was briefed about the experiment following which the ethical
guidelines were told and was made to sign the consent form willingly. Then
participants are put through both of the following groups:

1) Control Group:
In this the participant is shown the sheet 1. The participant has to read out the
words loud. Any mistakes about reading out any word in the list should be
corrected by the participant. The time taken to list all words should be
recorded.

2) Treatment Group:

In this the same participant is shown the sheet 2. The participant has to read
out the words loud. Any mistakes about reading out any word in the list
should be corrected by the participant. The time taken to list all words should
be recorded.

After conducting the experiment the participants were debriefed and they
were told to avoid telling about the experiment to other participants in order
to prevent demand characteristics.

RESULTS
DISCUSSION
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