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    The document summarizes an experiment that measured reaction times to emotional and neutral words. It hypothesized that reaction times would be longer for emotional words. The experiment involved presenting words to a participant and recording their response times. It found that the participant took 42.33 seconds longer on average to respond to emotional words compared to neutral words. This supported the hypothesis that reaction times are longer for emotional versus neutral words.

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    The document summarizes an experiment that measured reaction times to emotional and neutral words. It hypothesized that reaction times would be longer for emotional words. The experiment involved presenting words to a participant and recording their response times. It found that the participant took 42.33 seconds longer on average to respond to emotional words compared to neutral words. This supported the hypothesis that reaction times are longer for emotional versus neutral words.

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    MALIHA HAQUE
    1721977630
    Emotion determines how we react to situations around us, how we perceive things, and how
    to interact in future. There are three key elements of psychology: subjective, physiological
    response and behavioral element.
    In our experiment, we will measure the effect of words on the basis of reaction time.
    LITERATURE REVIEW:

    “Emotional Stroop task: effect of word arousal and subject anxiety on emotional
    interference” by Thomas Dresler. The researcher examined reaction time data using the
    emotional Stroop task while matching arousal level of positive and negative words.

    “Attention and the processing of emotional words: Dissociating effects of arousal”author


    Jennifer M. Aquino and Karen M. Arnel conducted an experiment to find if emotionally
    charged words receive preferential attentional processing in normal individuals.

    The findings are similar as we also attempt to find out whether or not emotional words or
    neutral words affect reaction time.
    Independent Variable:

    -Words
    -Variable that is manipulated
    -The amount of reaction time depends on the words
    -Words can trigger emotional responses

    Dependent Variable:

    -Reaction time
    -A variable that is expected to change as a result of changes caused by the independent
    variable.
    -The amount of time that passes between the presentation of a sensory stimulus and the time
    it takes to respond to a stimulus.
    PURPOSE:

    To find out whether human reaction time varies between emotional words and neutral
    words.

    HYPOTHESIS:

    The reaction time of emotional words would be longer than that of neutral words.
    PROCEDURE:
    - A single subject research experiment.
    - 58 years old with sound auditory capacity
    - Upper middle class

    STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4


    PROCEDURE:

    The participant was Calculated the total


    Participant was Sign the consent
    told a series of time and the mean
    informed it was a form and participate
    words to which he time taken by the
    psychological task voluntarily.
    responded one by participant to
    and read out a
    one. respond
    series of
    instructions.
    RESULT:

    Total time Average time

    Emotional words 101.78s 6.785s

    Neutral words 59.45s 3.963s


    DISCUSSION:

    The participant took 42.33s more in total when he responded to emotional words than
    neutral words.
    ❏ The participant was perhaps emotionally vulnerable.
    ❏ The words triggered a stimulus in the participant which resulted in a slower reaction
    time.
    ❏ Organismic factor played a role.
    ❏ Not an ideal lab setting.
    ❏ Other extraneous variable.
    ❏ Past experience affected emotional words
    CONCLUSION:

    The result of the experiment is the changed condition of the response time that has been
    produced by the direct effect of the words. The finding of the research is that it took the
    participant 42.33s more to respond to emotional words than neutral words.

    The result proves that our hypothesis is true.

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