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To show that the colour of text to the corresponding word affects the time it takes to say each colour.
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Adam Trodden Psychology Experiment 1986 - Forever Elaine Brown Rm 12 Aim: To show that the colour of text to the corresponding word affects the time it takes to say each colour. Psychology Experiment Abstract: The general Aims of the experiment were to see whether words and colours effected reading times. The method used was an experiment of opportunity sampling; the sampling frame was of thirty people. Overall the results show that the students of St Mary's college were slower when the colour and words didn't correspond with each other. Hypothesis: The hypothesis states that people will get faster times if the colour of the word is the same as the word. This is a one Tailed Hypothesis. Null Hypothesis: The Null Hypothesis states that people will not get faster if the colour of the word is the same as the word. Method: Design: This is a Mann-Whitney U Test and the design of this experiment was an...
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