The Conclusion Of The Stroop Effect Experiment

Conclusion Overall, what happened in the experiment is that the boy test subjects did better than the girl test subjects on average. The boys had a higher overall average on the first and third test. Boy test subjects had times that clumped around 41-45 seconds. But in the boys line graph See Appendix’s 3-7) was more jagged than the girls line graph. Yet the girls had a much straighter line graph, which showed that they had a much tighter group of times. The girl’s data was centered on and around 41-45 seconds range. (See Appendix’s 11-15) The boys could have had faster times than the girls because the male and female brains are different. The boys’ times were clumped around 41-45 seconds, which is approximately the same as the girls, but

Change it so that there is a quitter working space for the test subjects to work in. This is pretty important to do because this can greatly affect the time that the test subject gets. For example if there were no distraction the test subjects might get faster times because they would be more focused. Also make two copies of the Stroop Effect chart so that there is data on how many times the test subject made an error. Add more trials to all the tests. For example if there were three trials for reciting the color of the word than there would be a better average to compare the data to. Do the same; add more trials to reciting just the word. Next there could be the same test for adults to see if adults do better than the middle school students. Next time make changes to the style of Stroop Effect. For example, change the experiment so that it is more in sync with the actual Stroop Effect test. “In two classic experiments, Stroop first compared reading a list of words printed in black with reading the same list of words printed in incongruent colors. Stroop found that there was little difference in reading time for the two lists. Stroop then compared the naming of colors for a list of solid color squares with the naming of colors for a list of words printed in incongruent colors”(Backround). Finally make sure that the test subjects are not distracted by music or peer pressure to go faster. If this research was pursued further, then the question might be changed to ask if the Stroop Effect has a different effect on different age groups. This question came in the research of this topic. It says that “However, the older group continued to show a larger interference effect throughout practice. These findings indicate that older adults show the same trend in practice-related improvement on the Stroop task as younger adults”(Davidson).