In this experiment, all of the subjects were divided into two groups, gamers and non-gamers. In incongruent condition, subjects were presented with pictures of threatening animals (e.g. spiders, snakes etc.) and a conflicting word of the names of animals at the center of the pictures. While in natural condition, subjects were presented with six different types of threatening animals again like in the incongruent condition, but at the center of the picture, instead of conflicting words, there were non-animals word written (e.g. desk, pencil etc.). Participants were then asked to name the animals shown by the pictures by disregarding the words written on the pictures. There were two hypothesis that being tested in this experiment. The …show more content…
I also only choose people that have normal vision, in other word, not color blind. There were two groups of people among them that have different experience with video games, regardless of their gender. I had divided them into two groups (gamers and non-gamers) based on their answers on the questionnaire that I gave them a day before they do the experiment. Among the people who answered the questionnaire, I picked six people that are having a high video games experience or in other words, they always playing video games during their leisure times, while, the other six participants were people that are not into video games or having a low or none video games experience. All of the participants are non-native speakers of English language that are currently living in United States, but they must be able to speak in English and able to understand the instructions given during the experiment. There were rewards given to each of them after they completed this experiment. I used two conditions that are neutral and the incongruent in this experiment. Both of these conditions being presented to both the gamers and non-gamers. There will be two stimuli being used in this experiment, that were pictures of animals and contradicting or non-related animal word placed at the center of the picture. I am using pictures of six different types of scary or threatening animals in this experiment that are, spiders, snakes, crocodiles,
The same number of words and their length were the same in both conditions. The same colour shades and the order they were used, as well as how many times each word was presented, to negate practice effects, was equal in both conditions. The order of the conditions was alternated consecutively, participant one starting with condition one and then participant two starting with condition two and so on, again to negate any practice effects.
Participants: To conduct this experiment fifty-two college students will be selected. A sample test will be given out before any final decisions are made on who will partake in this study. This sample test will insure that the participants’ level of intelligence are similar. Twenty-six students, men and women, will make up the experimental group, and twenty-six will make up the control group. In each group there will be thirteen men, and thirteen women, to make the twenty-six. Each group member is placed in a certain group based on his/her sample test score.
Roald Dahl isa world renowned children's author, with books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG. However, his short story Lamb to the Slaughter is less popular, but equally a literary masterpiece. The short story is about a housewife Mary’s relationship with her husband, Patrick. He is rude and commanding to her as she attempts to prepare their supper, so she impulsively kills him with the lamb leg she was readying for their meal. Dahl uses emotions, irony, and characterization as narrative elements to create tension between characters in his short story Lamb to the Slaughter.
Design A repeated measures design was used. Each variable exhibited one of 3 levels of congruence. Congruent variables consisted of words which matched both in semantic meaning and font colour, Control variables had semantic meanings unrelated to their colour (for example the word "house" presented in blue), and incongruent variables had semantic meanings which contrasted with the colour in which they were displayed (for example the word "blue" displayed in the colour red). 16 variables of each type were presented to each of the 20 participants tested. Each level of congruence was randomly distributed throughout the test. Reaction times were measured for each participant for each stimulus, as related to the congruence of each stimulus responded to.
In experiment 1, participants were instructed to press a key to determine if the stimulus was red, blue, yellow, or green. On the second half of the experiment, the stimulus appeared in grey with only one colored letter which was positioned randomly. Error rates for the experiment were below 2.5% for each condition, which is quite low. Experiment 2 was the same as experiment 1 except that there were 114 data collections instead of 288 and there were 36 practice trials instead of 72. According to experiment 1 and 2 it is suggested that the effect of
This experiment was conducted by surveying ninety-six people, 48 males and 48 females, to complete a short survey. The survey asked them if they were color blind and whether they were male or female. They were then given five color cards (blue, green, pink, purple and yellow) and ordered the sample colors from their favorite to least favorite on a scale of 1-5.
The same color mice were placed in an inland habitat but this time the brown mice were the control and the white mice were the experimental. The test showed that 75% of white mice were attacked, while 25% of brown mice were attacked. Because the white mice did not
In conclusion the experiment was successful since it supported the aim of the experiment and it was consitance ing what Stroop find in his inteference experiment which was that it took longer time for participants to identify the color of the word stimuli since the participants are more familiar with the identification of color boxes and its much more easier than identifying word stimuli since there schemas do not recognize as quickly as it does with just naming colors. However i would do this experiment again but instead i would associate the time it takes identifying colors of boxes and word stimuli if the participant had a 3.5 gpa or avove and the time it took a participant to identify color boxes and the color word stimuli if the participant
The current study had 23 participants from Miami University took part in this experiment. Throughout the study, 2 participants were excluded from analyses, because they failed to follow task instructions or failed to complete the entire experiment. This left a final sample of 21 participants (16 female, 4 male, 1 do not wish to disclose). The mean age was 21.20 years (SD = 7.06). Most of the participants were white (n = 16) while the rest included Asian, Black/African American, and Bi- or Multiracial (n = 5). In addition, in the demographic section of the survey, participants answered their academic standing: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or other. The majority of the participants were juniors (n = 9) closely followed by
There were 12 graduates, 29 male undergraduates and 59 female undergraduates. It should be noted that in experiment one authors printed a word with different color, for example the word red printed in blue color. This was the basis on interference and color stimuli. The students were expected to name the colors as quickly as possible as they appeared in the reading line. It was referred to as naming color test.in this case the color print determined the word reading expect from the subjects.in case the word red as written in blue then the subjects were expected to read it as blue and not red as the wordings suggests. The word Brown written in green color would be read as green and this applied to all the groups. The subjects were subjected to similar conditions as in the first experiment. The efforts of the subjects were rated in terms of speed, ease and convenience in adhering to the test instructions. The errors were then compared to study
For this experiment, I will randomly choose 48 children, which I will divide it in two groups of 24 children and in each one will be 12 boys and 12 girls. The experimental group (24 children) will be the one watching the 30 minutes video of Teenage Mutant Ninja for 5 consecutive days while the control group (24 children) will be the one watching a 30 minute video with minimum or if possible no high levels of action. I will choose them from a same demographic area and will conduct a previous survey to the
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Alone” is a short, revealing lyric poem that the reader presumes to be about the author, as it is written in the first person and contains no characters. The speaker is looking back on their childhood and upbringing with melancholy, remarking that, “From childhood’s hour I have not been / As others were - I have not seen / As others saw - I could not bring / My passions from a common spring-”. These four lines set up Mr. Poe’s message to the reader - he is saying, ‘I am not like others. My past has not been perfect, and I am different because of that.’ This is the theme of the poem - the speaker’s view on his unconventional childhood, and how it may have shaped who he became as an adult. This indicates even further to the reader that the poem may be autobiographical - Edgar Allan Poe himself had a difficult childhood, first being abandoned by his biological father, and then with the death of his mother from tuberculosis at age three. Edgar was separated from his siblings, the only blood family he had left, and taken in by the Allan family, whose patriarch was a successful tobacco merchant. Poe quickly bonded with Mrs. Allan, but his literary talents were discouraged again and again by Mr. Allan and Poe’s teachers (Edgar Allan Poe). This troubling past certainly fits with the rocky childhood Poe writes about in “Alone”.The speaker goes on to say, ‘From the same source I have not taken / My sorrow; I could not awaken / My heart to joy at the same tone/
(3) So, the goal of this experiment is to see whether there is a discrimination
Evidence suggests that there is a positive effect when people have a dog in their lives. No matter if it is for therapy, depression, anxiety, loneliness, or just because you love animals, there is a high chance that the dog will put you in a better mood than you were before. The studies were done on people that enjoy animals or do not mind them, otherwise there would not be a positive effect in your mood. I am doing random assignment, so a problem would be having students do the experiment even though they are not a fan of dogs. The purpose of this study is to prove that animals can be positive to your mood even if you are not interacting with them like in most studies. No matter if you are playing with a dog, viewing a picture of
People as animals have instinctive tendencies to care for themselves first no matter how narcissistic an ideal that may seem to be it is by all means a logical defense and mechanism for self preservation. Defiance of this principle, however, can be seen often when humans or animals put themselves on the line to protect a family member or loved one, but what makes an individual more likely to help a relative than a random person in need? Nearly everybody at some point in their life will care about another person aside from the sociopathic few. For most people their first encounter with a loving bond comes from their childhood household; wherein, they are born with and constantly encounter one or two parents that will go to great lengths to help them. This instills people with an idea of common family values such as your obligation and desire to help those you're biologically close with. People make friends and establish a hierarchy of peoples importance almost assigning value to the lives of others based upon their relation putting "family first". What aspect of the human psyche makes this evaluation of people’s value morally sound? This behavior isn’t only exhibited in humans either. There are some animals that will stick to groups comprised of their blood relatives while others will form packs of trustworthy individuals regardless of relation. In my opinion it's the alteration of our definition of family and expanding it to encompass everyone that we care about and holding all of these people in the same regard.