Project 1:  Taboo Stroop Effect

In this project you are to participate in an in class demonstrations of the Taboo Stroop effect.  Over the course of the next several weeks, you will write an APA style report of the class results.  Your written report will include the following:

1.   Title page

2.   Abstract  (less then 100 words, on a separate page)

3.   Introduction:  Briefly describe the hypothesis (or hypotheses) in general terms, and briefly describe how they were tested.  Include a brief review of relevant literature in this section.

4.   Method:  describe the participants, materials, design, and the procedures that was used to test the hypotheses.

5.   Results:  Describe what happened.  How were the data analyzed?  What were the results? 

6.   Discussion:  What do these results imply?  Return to the original hypotheses.  Are the results the same as those in previous studies you mentioned in the introduction?  Why or why not?

7.  References:  Start a new page and list any sources you used specifically in reporting your research.

8.  Tables/Figures: For the purpose of exposition, you might find it useful to put the results into a table or figure.  These appear on separate pages after the reference section.

Starting Reference:

MacKay, D.G., Shafto, M., Taylor, J.K., Marion, D.E., Abrams, L., & Dyer, J. (2004). Relations between emotion, memory and attention: Evidence from taboo Stroop, lexical decision, and immediate memory tasks. Memory & Cognition, 32, 474-488.