The Effect Of Primary And Secondary Colors On Our Perception Time - The Stroop Effect
...Methodology Method and design 6
Variables 6
Participants 6
Apparatus 7
Procedure 7
Controls 8
Results Summary table 9
Commentary on summary table 9
Additional Graphical description of Results 10
Descriptive Statistics Comments 11
Relationship to the Hypothesis 11
Discussion Validity 12
Improving validity 13
Reliability 13
Improving reliability 14
Implications of the study 14
Generalisation of findings 15
Application to everyday life 16
Bibliography 17
Appendices Appendix A 18
Appendix B 19
Appendix C 20
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND RESEARCH
In this experiment, I investigated the effect of certain colors on our ‘perception time’. I used the ‘Stroop Effect’ as a method for measuring the ‘perception time’.
The earliest findings on the subject of ‘Perception of colors’ came from the incident involving ‘Turner on Vanishing Day 1846, Sheffield City Gallery’. Turner’s act on ‘vanishing day’ of altering his paintings into glorious colors as opposed to monochrome by his competitors proved the important point that; colour is likely to form a very lasting impression on its viewers. The colour red was in particular important in this context as proved by the ‘red buoy’ incident – spectators were drawn to the painting of the red buoy rather than any other paintings (which also had some color in then), because Turner had included the colour red in his painting. This theory was later fully explained by biological developments which showed that the human eye contains receptors called cones which initially respond to specific wavelengths of red, green and blue ( all the primary colors first). Therefore it was not surprising in Turner’s painting that the colour red, attracted more attention than other colors.
This biological theory is related to cognitive psychology because the research involves ‘perception’ of colors (e.g. the...
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