Kemp's Ridley

The film we studied was The Martian directed by Ridley Scott. The three main points I will be elaborating more on is the ‘positivity’ of Mark Watney, the ‘Responsible leader’ of Commander Lewis and the ‘Intelligence’ of Benjamin Vogel. These are the 3 important qualities which lead to the successful rescue of Mark Watney. I believe that these are the 3 most important qualities found throughout the film, and they will be the ones i will use to construct my essay. Using them to emphasise the the…

Out of all of the animals in the ocean the Anglerfish is by far the most fascinating. Nearly three feet long and known as the ugliest creature on the planet this fish has obviously made great adaptions to conform to its environment. Few understand the changes we must go through in order to survive, and it’s even harder when you don’t have a supermarket. The uneducated say ugly others say admirable, these changes are far from easy and may take hundreds of years. The Anglerfish’s habitat is…

The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley Most people assume the world is going to hell in a handbasket and that they are the only ones who will do well. There is something about human nature that makes us pessimistic of others and optimistic about yourself. Matt Ridley in The Rational Optimist explains how in nearly every way the world is becoming more a more prosperous. I was given a new perspective on the world, I had never looked at the world through an optimist's eyes until now. All around us…

In the workbook, there are two columns, one on the left is the symbols and other one on the right is the numbers. To experience the Stroop effect, I have to count the numbers of symbols/numbers that are there in the workbook. My personal experience with the Stroop task wasn’t so difficult but the one on the right one made me respond slower than I did with the one on the left. I would say the reason I was slower when I performed the right column because my mind would atomically read first instead…

project focuses on the Stroop Effect and how to eliminate it. Information on this subject is extremely limited but I will try my best to answer the research questions that I have put forth. HISTORY The Stroop effect was named after a man called John Ridley stroop. He discovered this phenomenon in the 1930’s. He had people try to name the color in which a word was printed, meaning that if you had the word “blue” printed in red ink, you would say “red”. Stroop found that it was easier to name the…

This paper explains the effects of the famous Stroop Test, what it means, and why it stumps so many minds. The Stroop Test brings into the field many questions about how the brain works, like whether humans can identify words faster than colors or vice versa. The fascination people have with this test is not because it is easy and fun, but because it is confusing and tricky. A simple task of identifying the color of a word when the color does not match the word seems like a piece of cake…

Stroop Effect: Color and Word Naming John Ridley (J.R.) Stroop, as described by C. Macleod (1991), was born into a farming community and was not expected to live past infancy, so he was sheltered by his family to protect him. Due to not having to do heavy farm work, Stroop focused on his education and graduated top of his class. He eventually received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. Stroop performed the Stroop effect experiment as his dissertation, which was then actually not rediscovered…

In measuring the effects of emotion on reaction time, we used a modified version of the Stroop task (Stroop, 1935). In the Stroop task, participants are presented with color words that are not printed in the same color they are spelling. The participants are required to identify the ink color that a color word is printed in and then move on to the next word until they complete the task. Reaction times in this experiment are measured in milliseconds and recorded. In the modified version, also…

You're probably thinking, “What even is the ‘Stroop Effect’”? Well, the Stroop effect is classified as how our minds work in telling the difference between naming color words, and naming the word’s colors. It was discovered by John Ridley Stroop (Stroop, J.R.) in 1935. And it studies the the interference in verbal reactions. Many people wonder why this still fascinates psychologists. Part of the answer is the effect taps into the essential operations of cognition, which helps us figure out how…

This article is about the Stroop color-word test and the effects it has on children, adults, and aging. Before reading this article, I have heard of this test before. The researchers will show the children and adults a word with a color such as green and it will be in a different color. This is testing to see if they can say they word without being interfered with the color showing up on the word. At first, this sometimes can be difficult but after you read the words a few times it gets easier.…