essay寫作—閱讀對(duì)色彩命名控制過程的影響

1、Essay 寫作—閱讀對(duì)色彩命名控制過程的影響AbstractFormer research suggests that there is complication when asked to recall the colour of the ink a word is written in,especially if the text is the name of an alternative colour.The purp

2、ose of this study was to investigate the Stroop effect to see if the automatic process of reading interferes with the control process of colour naming.Two groups of participants were either given the co

3、lour word condition or the non-word condition,all of the words in both conditions were written in one of six ink colours.The participants were then asked to recall the ink colour of each word in the fastest time possible

4、 ignoring the written word itself.The results confirmed that participants took longer to recall the colours of incompatible colour words compared to the non-word condition.The results support previous research o

5、n automatic and controlled processing and provides greater evidence of the Stroop-effect.IntroductionThe concept that the controlled and automatic cognitive processes are fundamental to human cognition has been suggeste

6、d for many years.In previous literature papers a controlled process is referred to as consciously coordinated actions stimulated by the precise attention and the control of the individual(SchneiderWalczyk,2000).Research

7、suggests that word recognition for reading is a relatively automatic process(RaynerLaBergethe incompatible ink colour word condition and the non-word condition which was also in coloured ink.The independent variable for

8、 the study was the time taken to name the link colour of the word,this was measured in seconds.To reduce the impact of confounding variables it was ensured that both lists contained the same number of words and also the

9、 words from both lists had identical word lengths.StimuliTwo Power Point presentations were used within the present study this allowed each condition of participants to see a different presentation.For the incompatible c

10、olour word condition 24 words were presented,these words contained six different colours.These words consisted of:red,blue,green,yellow,orange and purple.These words were also written in one of the six colours ink(see A

11、ppendix A).Each word appeared in each of the other ink colours once.Alternatively,for the non- word condition there were 24 random letter sequences which were the same word length as the previous condition

12、.These sequences were also displayed in the same six ink colours(see Appendix A).ProcedureBefore the experiment had commenced participants were informed what the study involves and they were also asked to give infor

13、med verbal consent to ensure they wanted to take part and want their data to be used.Thirty- two participants were randomly assigned to either the incompatible colour word condition or the random letter s

14、equence condition to create two equal sized groups.The participants were presented with a PowerPoint presentation containing 24 words or 24 non-words and were asked to name the colour of the ink the words o