Class: P 211 Lecture Review: Marks paper has the answer to quiz questions on week three. Know dependent variable (symptoms of PTSD) and independent variable Outline of Current Lecture: I. Stroup Effect II. Interference III. J.R. Stroup IV. Clicker Questions V. RelevanceWhat if you expect improvement that cant be self reported  Adhd  Alzheimer’s  Anterior cingulate dysfunction  Anxiety disorders  And the list goes on How do you test in a less objective way?  Stroup effect: (this is only one second)Example: DO NOT READ THIS STOP IT WHY DO YOU KEEP READING STUPID FACEInterference Reading is automatic (for you at least)Why is it automatic? Why can’t we stop reading? These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Because we have been brow beaten to read things since the age of about five.  If there is something else in the vicinity even though we are supposed to focus we can’t help but listen or read.  Reading and listening is automatic  Interference: you can only do so much at a time o Fancy term: limited attention resources o Distraction: sometimes when you’re trying to do something grabs your limited attention resources o Interference: automatic processes (such as reading or sounds) can conflict with what you are trying to doStarting an Experiment 1. Decide what you want to research a. You want to research interference, right? 2. Find out what has been done before:a. For example go on Google scholar and type in Interference.J.R Stroup  Incongruent Condition: “Naming color of word test when the color of the print and the word are different” (NCWd) The Stroop effect: Frist reported by john stroop in 1935  It was his doctoral dissertation  Became one of the most famous experiments in psy  The second of three experiments describe in his 1935 paper  His dissertation advisor who urged Stroop to continue the research died unexpectedly Stroop then turned to bible teaching and left his research What’s happening?1. You see the stimuli 2. You automatically read the stimulus and you id the color of the stimuli 3. You need to say “red” but the response conflicts with the word you read automatically4. Saying red requires you to inhibit the automatically process of reading a. Which causes you to name colors slower Clicker questions Will someone who’s drunk preform the Stroop task better or worse? Better: you have a harder time The Stroop effect is totally relevant to life situations Study done on Russian words: In the cold war the CIA is said to have used the Stroop effect to see if there were spies who had secret knowledge of the Russian lang. Relevance  Devin Hester o In the NFL #20 – 49 are worn by running backs, corner backs and safeties o Devin was originally drafted as a cornerback and return specialist  He was switched to wide receiver and his score went down due to the Stroop effect.  Because of that fact that he was continuously conditioned not to throw to certain numbers. Those numbers switched when he switched