OUR SECOND RESEARCH

 This experiment was actually conducted after our last reward and punishment experiment and Jeff and I filmed the corresponding video of the experiment.

Our experiment this time was the Stroop effect: an experiment that investigated the interference of reading with color naming. Participants are shown a list of words written in different colors and asked to name the color of the ink rather than read the word. This experiment can be carried out with a simple list of words printed in different colors.

The Stroop effect is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when the brain is confronted with conflicting information. It refers to the delay in reaction time that occurs when a person is asked to say the color of a word, but the word itself is the name of another color.

For example, if the word 'green' is written in red ink, it may take longer for a person to correctly say that the color of the ink is 'red' rather than 'green', despite the word 'green'. This happens because reading is a more automatic process than color recognition and the brain has to work harder to resolve the conflict between these two pieces of information.

The Stroop effect has been widely used in psychological research to study selective attention, cognitive control and processing speed. Below is our experimental demonstration of this effect, which we chose three students to complete.

The first tester Ryan

The second tester Rachell

The third tester Taric

Above is a video of our experiment, and in the next update we will talk about the conclusions of our experiment.