Name: __Luke Ewing______________ Period: ____6___ Date: _August 31st, 2015_

Research Project Completion Form

TOPIC: _________Color and word deception______________
1. What was your hypothesis? That people all ages would see colors before they read the
word.
2. What method of research design did you choose and why?
I chose to have many people play a game then take a survey basically giving their results.
3. How did you define the ambiguous (unclear) aspects of your topic?
I didn't really have any parts that were confusing.
4. What variables do you expect to impact your project?
How much focus they have while playing the game.
5. How do you plan on addressing those variables?
I didn't really have a plan for that if that influenced their score than i took that score into
account
6. Data Collection:
How did you collect your data?
Survey
Who did your project target?
Suppose to target all ages i actually was only able to get kids mostly under 20.
Did it matter who you targeted? Why or why not?
Overall yes because i was searching for all ages to see if it affected them but i did get the
main point across of people see colors over words.
7. Data Analysis:
How did you analyze your data? I looked at what their score was and how old they were

What were you looking for? (mean, mode, frequency, correlation, etc.)
correlation
What were your results?
Most people saw colors before seeing the word.
Did your results prove or disprove your hypothesis? How do you know?
Prove because i said people would see color first because they didn't want to read the
word.

6. Reflection:
What was the most difficult thing about this project?
Getting people to take my survey, i had my brother put it on his tumblr which has a ton of
followers but without him it would have been a struggle.

If you could ask a different question or questions to improve your results what would it
be?
I wouldn't ask anything different because i feel as if i got my point across with the
questions i asked.

Is your view of the topic different now? Why or why not?

No really because i predicted exactly what would happen.

If you could do the entire project over again, what would you do differently?
Get more age groups to take the survey i mostly got just teenagers.
7. Documents:
Please attach a copy of your survey, interview questions, and explanation of your
observation or experiment. (whatever you did to collect your

data)https://docs.google.com/a/studentswcsoh.org/forms/d/1-kdmzF83VrzjWG5uye1ZcXBTM0phDdpW52edKN1nMM/viewform
Please attach a copy of the pieces of literature you found that related to your topic of
study (shoot for at least 3)
https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.html talks about the strroop affect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect psycology behind stroop affect
Definition of stroop affect
1. The Stroop effect is the finding that naming the color of the first set
of words is easier and quicker than the second. Stroop effect. In
psychology, the Stroop effect is a demonstration of interference in the
reaction time of a task.