EXPERIENCE Chapter 4 Psychology Lab: Stroop Attention

The end of the video touched on the idea of cognitive resources being limited, and the notion that some tasks require far more/less active cognitive processing than others. After having completed the exercise, according to what you learned and based on graphical data presented, it is safe to assume that the ____________ group required the greatest mental resources, while the ____________ group required the least. This left the ___________ group lying between these two extremes with regard to use of cognitive resources, as would be expected.

Mismatch; match; control

Imagine that you are running this same experiment on a group of participants that spoke no English. Based on the explanation provided, what would you predict about their results?

Their reaction times in all 3 conditions (control, match, and mismatch) would be similar.

The introduction to this experiment presented you with some questions about how you handle distractions. Apply what you learned in this experiment to complete the scenario. Life in the dormitory can be noisy and distracting and that can create some problems when one attempts to study. Based on what you learned, distractions will be most disruptive when you are studying a subject that _____________ , and distractions will be least disruptive when you are studying a subject that _________________.

is really challenging; you already know really well

In this experiment, the independent variable was created by ________.

manipulating the relationship between the words that were presented and the number of time each word appeared

Suppose your task was to report the number of times each element in the stimulus appeared, where the element was a smiley face, the numeral 5, or the numeral 3. In terms of accuracy, based on the findings in the experiment, you would expect to be most accurate with _____________ and least accurate with ____________. In terms of the speed your correct responses, you would expect to be fastest with ___________ and the slowest with _____________.

the numeral 5 presented five times; the numeral 3 presented five times; the numeral 5 presented five times; the numeral 3 presented five times

The dependent variables were ________.

the speed and accuracy of the participant's response.