Participants - The people that were involved in this study were the students enrolled in section sixty-three of Psychology 132. The students paired off and participated as part of a class demonstration.
Design - The independent variables in this experiment include the reading of the words and the naming of the colors on the cards. These variables are directly controlled by the experimenter's ability to read the words and name the colors. The dependent variable in this experiment is the amount of time it took the participant to finish reading the words or naming the colors on each card. .
Procedure - One person in the group is the experimenter while the other is the participant. First, the participant only has to read the words on the card with the black ink; however, he has to name each color on the card with the colored patches. Second, the participant has to name the colors of the patches on the card. Third, they have to name the ink color that each word is written in, even though the color that is written is different than the ink color it is written in. Lastly, he is presented with the same card as the third trial with the colored words. He has to read the word of each colored word on the card. If he makes a mistake, he is compelled to return to his mistake and correct it while the time continues. The time is recorded after each trial. Then, the experimenter and the participant switch places and repeat the experiment (Growney, 28). .
Results - .
Graph: see attachment.
The results in this experiment were very interesting. In order to compare the different trials of the experiment, the participant has to find the means of each condition of the whole class's data. The mean for condition one (read the black words) is 17.931 seconds. The mean for condition two (name the color of the patch) is 20.996 seconds. The mean for condition three (name the color of the ink), however, is 35.
