Hypothesis:
Individuals who prefer high fat and sugar foods will priorities attention to images of these foods and therefore have a significant increase in their response time, compared to those who do. Those whom received a high preference of high fat foods in the pre-test will score significantly higher in the questionnaire in the post-test, with a longer reaction time in the odd one out task, indicating that after exposure to food stimuli these individuals attention was impaired.
Method
There will be two levels of the independent variable in order to test this hypothesis. The first independent variable will be either high/low preference of fatty foods. This will be conducted through a pre-post test questionnaire. The questionnaire will …show more content…
The posttest will be compared with the baseline that was given in the pre-test. This sets out to determine that individuals who received a high preference for fat foods in the pre-test before food stimuli was shown, exhibit an even higher preference for high fat foods in the post test, after being exposed to food stimuli, compared to those who received a low preference …show more content…
Participants who do not have a favour for these fatty foods will not show as much as impairment to the reaction time after being shown the salient stimuli.
Additionally, those who received a high preference score in the pre-test will also show an significantly higher preference for fat foods in the post-test after exposure to food stimuli. The new scores from the post test will correlate highly with the deficit for those with high fat food preference to attain attention during the odd one out task after the exposure of the food stimuli, indicating that the food stimuli impaired their attention to be able to perform the task accordingly.
Figure 1 shows that those who reported high preference for food, their reaction time was significantly higher in doing the odd one out task, compared to those with low preference. There is no significant difference between the no image and scenery images in the performance of the task across both low/high groups. This indicates that after seeing a food image, the high preference group’s attention was shifted
Individuals who prefer high fat and sugar foods will priorities attention to images of these foods and therefore have a significant increase in their response time, compared to those who do. Those whom received a high preference of high fat foods in the pre-test will score significantly higher in the questionnaire in the post-test, with a longer reaction time in the odd one out task, indicating that after exposure to food stimuli these individuals attention was impaired.
Method
There will be two levels of the independent variable in order to test this hypothesis. The first independent variable will be either high/low preference of fatty foods. This will be conducted through a pre-post test questionnaire. The questionnaire will …show more content…
The posttest will be compared with the baseline that was given in the pre-test. This sets out to determine that individuals who received a high preference for fat foods in the pre-test before food stimuli was shown, exhibit an even higher preference for high fat foods in the post test, after being exposed to food stimuli, compared to those who received a low preference …show more content…
Participants who do not have a favour for these fatty foods will not show as much as impairment to the reaction time after being shown the salient stimuli.
Additionally, those who received a high preference score in the pre-test will also show an significantly higher preference for fat foods in the post-test after exposure to food stimuli. The new scores from the post test will correlate highly with the deficit for those with high fat food preference to attain attention during the odd one out task after the exposure of the food stimuli, indicating that the food stimuli impaired their attention to be able to perform the task accordingly.
Figure 1 shows that those who reported high preference for food, their reaction time was significantly higher in doing the odd one out task, compared to those with low preference. There is no significant difference between the no image and scenery images in the performance of the task across both low/high groups. This indicates that after seeing a food image, the high preference group’s attention was shifted