Research project topic and Hypothesis and The Stroop Effect Research

The Stroop Effect will be used for the  Research Report .   For the research report you will use the  data  set provided by me. Doing this online experiment allows you to experience the experiment so you are familiar with the procedures. You will need these details when you write your report.  

You will do this experiment so you have an idea of what it is, how it works and what your participants went through. This will help you write the procedure section for your paper. The data you will actually analyze for your project will be given to you by me. 

Here is some basic information on the  Stroop Effect . The lab you will try can be found here:  Stroop Effect Lab - Try This!  You can also find it by going through this: Content - Course Resources - Psychology Learning Tools - Psychology Labs - Stroop Effect Lab - Try this.

Comment with your times for each of the two trials.

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Research Project Topic/Hypothesis

You have a choice in how you approach this  Research Report . First read the project instructions, then complete this discussion.

Your hypothesis and topic determines what you choose to analyze. We are starting our research report NOW by developing a hypothesis to use in your paper.

There are many ways that you can look at this assignment. You could be interested in the Stroop Effect and age so you analyze the data by age.

You may be interested in gender differences or even gender by age differences.

You may be interested in something else, like if the participant has uses caffeine or not. You can create a new variable in the Research Report data and put a 1 if the participant was an athlete and a 0 if not. Then you can analyze the data by that grouping. You can make up a new variable for how many drinks the participant had prior to doing the lab. You can see if there is a correlation between the number of drinks and the time they spent on the lab.

Let me know if you want to do this and we can talk about the best way to organize your data.

Remember that any good researcher looks at the background literature (i.e., previous published research) before deciding on a specific research idea and hypothesis. Make sure that there is something that supports your idea!

Compose your response to this discussion with your name as the subject. Describe your research idea and topic and state your hypothesis. You will write this paper in third person so your hypothesis should be in third person as well. For instance, "It is hypothesized that males will have less of a difference between the two Stroop Tasks than females" and NOT "My hypothesis is that males will have less difference in times time than females." Also tell me how you plan (or think you might plan) to analyze the data. It's okay if you are not sure about this- we will discuss it and I will give you some guidance if necessary.

For example: My research idea is about whether or not gender influences the Stroop Effect. It is hypothesized that there will be a significant difference between men and women. I will use a t test to analyze the data.

Note: Your data includes gender (1=Male, 2=Female), age, time to READ the words, and time to SAY the colors.

Also, please use at least 50 subjects in each group but you should aim to use as many participants as possible! There is no reason to discard good data.

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Stroop Effect Explanation

Stroop Effect Online Study  – This is only an example of the actual test. As you can see in the picture below, the actual test is much longer.

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Week 4 Discussion

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Describe the specific attributes of an experimental research design. Make sure to talk about internal and external validity in your description and how to maximize these concepts in a study.

Then, decide whether each of the following topics could be studied using an experimental research design and then explain why or why not. Discuss the role of potential confounding variables in each example. Are the examples considered within subjects or between subjects designs? Why?

    a.  Effect of parietal lobe damage on people's ability to do basic arithmetic.

    b.  Effect of being clinically depressed on the number of close friendships people have.

    c.  Effect of group training on the social skills of teenagers with Asperger's syndrome.

    d.  Effect of paying people to take an IQ test on their performance on that test.