The study was predominantly conduced to test the stroop hypothesis that the meaning of colour words interfere with the colour of words when they are written in different ink colour for the text meaning. The research was conducted on a small sample of college students and a related measure design was used. The procedure involved the participants naming the colour of words in control condition where the word meaning was not an ink colour. Conversely, they were then recorded in the stroop condition where they had to name the ink colour of the colour meaning words. The results empathically showed that the sample found it significantly more difficult to say the ink colours in the stroop condition than in the control condition. The researcher maintains with a high level of validity that the results are consistent and are able to be used for generalisation purpose even although the sample was extremely small.
The research was carried into a branch of cognitive psychology relating to attention. In order for psychologists to study automatized behaviours they tend to put participants in situations where an automatized behaviour is in conflict with a desired one. This allows them to study and test particula
2.8. The same procedure was replicated for the stroop condition after all the individuals had completed the control condition.
In the process of conducting the experiment the following procedures were followed.
2.1. The researcher when taking into consideration experimental designs considered a within-subject design to be best suited for the experiment as it would allow the individuals to be recorded in both conditions.
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