Technology And Its Effect On Human Behavior - 1886 Words

There are processes that people cannot help but do, examples include reading, breathing, and hearing, among others. When those automatic processes cannot be shut down or overcome in the face of an important task and disrupt people’s performance on that task, it is called interference. In this paper, we argue that perceiving and evaluating size is automatic; but determining value is not and may thus receive interference from size judgments. The original research on interference was done by Stroop (1935), where he coined the term â€Å"Stroop Effect†, which referred to an automatic process interfering with the ability to complete another task. In his experiment, participants were instructed to say the text color of a written color name. For†¦show more content†¦This not only tested eye fixation for learning about attention but also a kind of Stroop effect that pitted the automatic process of number recognition against choosing the amount of characters. Along with eye fixation, the Stroop effect can be used in studies that research children’s learning and associated neural activity. Recent work has evaluated how children process number-size interference tasks (Kaufmann et al., 2006). These number-size interference tasks involved a test similar to Crespo et al.’s (2009), but instead of comparing numbers with their amount, this study examines brain activity by having children compare number pairs, distant or close, with congruent or incongruent size. Kaufmann et al. (2006)’s study showed that a congruent condition of the number†¦ The numerical Stroop effect can also aid studies researching if different magnitudes are represented independently of each other (Xuan, Zhang, He, Chen, 2007). The results from Xuan et al.’s (2007) study showed that judging larger sized stimuli took more time to accomplish than judging smaller sized stimuli. The stimuli they used were four different pairs of items, including a number of dots, luminescence of open squares, size of open squares, and numbers, which ranged from large to small. The researcher presented each stimuli for a certain amount of time, and participants were