“DSE212 TMA 03 An experiment investigating whether the stroop effect occurs with words that are not colour words. Contents. 1. Abstract..1 2. Introduction.2 3. Method2 3.1. Design..3 3.2. Participation……3 3.3. Materials…3 3.4. Procedure..3 4. Results..4 5. Discussion..6 6. References.7 7. Appendices…8”

1. Abstract.

The role of automatic and controlled processes was examined in an experiment by employing a Stroop-effect type of experiment, previous research found that response time was longer when the words used were names of colours than non-coloured name words. These results have been used in support of a Two process theory of attention. In the present experiment the response times for colour-related and colour-neutral words was manipulated. The results showed that the time recall for the colour-related words was longer than the colour-neutral words providing further support for a Two process theory.

2. Introduction.

Attention is a process of selection from the environment around us, what gets our attention and what does not, this is because the mind has a limited-capacity central processor, (Kahneman, 1973, cited in Edgar, 2007, pg.11), it has insufficie…(short extract)