Isolating stroop interference to measure it in a classification modality vacuum
Authors
Golden, Kilian
Issue Date
2022
Degree
Higher Diploma in Psychology
Publisher
Dublin Business School
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Abstract
A repeated measures experiment was carried out with three trials, designed to minimise the impact of the congruity of the response method and task command on Stroop interference. The first trial was a classic Stroop experiment. The second and third trials were variations of Stroop experiments with amended response methods. The response method and task command had congruent classification modalities in the second, and an attempt was made to neutralise the relevance of classification modality in the third, using memory as a neutral mediator. The results supported the translational model and supported the idea that a memory based response method will cause additional interference not related to the Stroop effect. Interference was also found to be at similar levels in the neutral trial as it was in the classic Stroop test and so it was not possible to determine the extent to which the interference had been isolated. This was because the results in the neutral trial were not sufficiently different from those of a classic Stroop test so as to offset the surprisingly large non-Stroop related interference induced by the use of memory as classification modality for the response method.