The Stroop Effect

For this assignment, you will complete a research paper on The Stroop Effect and selective attention. The Stroop Effect is a phenomenon that occurs with the Stroop Task, a test that looks at what happens when we are asked to perform an ordinary task (such as reading or identifying a list of colors) when there is some sort of visual interference.

You are acting like you are the researcher who conducted this study! However, you do not have to actually collect the data – I already have that for you. In order to understand how the study works and how data was collected, you will need to participate in an online experiment on the Stroop Effect located within the “psychology learning tools”. Remember that you did this earlier in the class!

Once you have completed the experiment you will need to analyze data (remember that I will give you data) and write a lab report (7- 10 pages – this page count does not include the title page or references) in APA style consisting of the following sections:

Title Page
Abstract
Introduction
Method
Results
Discussion
References
(More information on each section is located below)

Here is the data file: DATA (I attached the data)

Remember that you were given additional details in the Hypothesis discussion.

You will write the report as if you were the researcher conducting the experiment. You have some options in your research question for this project. The data you are given includes the gender and age of the participants as well as two columns of results data (reading the words and saying the colors). If you have a particular interest and want to modify the data, you have that choice. We will talk about this as you work on your hypothesis. You should try to use as much of your data as possible. Do not discard data unless there is a really good reason to do so.

Careful attention must be paid to APA Style as it represents a significant portion of your grade for the paper and is an intended learning outcome for the course.

Below is the hypothesis that I am using.

It is hypothesized that people who lack sufficient amount of sleep effects on various cognitive domains, including attention, vigilance and working memory. In order to test the hypothesis, there would be two groups that consisted of women and men.

Also tell me how you plan (or think you might plan) to analyze the data?

The research would testing if sleep deprivation disrupts reaction time. The groups would be the following: Ages 18-39 and 51-72 for a total of 100 participants. That number would be split in half, by 50/50. The participants for their research would consist of 50 women and 50 men. Participants would use the online version to calculate their scores twice.

It is hypothesized that people that are older have a slower reaction time than the younger ones.