The purpose of this experiment is to test the Stroop Effect on gender and Age. Since the Stroop Effect is a color and word test that has to do with the eyes and reaction time, I wanted to see if gender and age had an impact. With this experiment I can conclude which gender and age has a faster reaction in identifying color. My hypothesis is that women will do better because they are more sensitive to color and more color coordinated than men, also some men may suffer from color blindness. I also believe that younger children will do better than the adults because they will not have the tendency like the adults to read the name of the color.

My procedure of this project consisted of creating four Stroop test sheets. The first sheet was the control, which had the same color pattern. This is the favored sheet amongst the tests because it is the simplest. Then I created test sheet A, which had a previous color pattern. The third sheet, test sheet B, proved to be the hardest test, because it contained a preceding color pattern. Finally, I created the last test sheet which was test sheet C, this contained a random color pattern. With these four tests, a stop-watch and a notebook I began my experiment. I tested six age groups, with twenty men and women in every group. I tested a total of one hundred and twenty men and one hundred and twenty women, with a total of two hundred and forty people.

My results for this experiment were that for the most part everyone who took the test had a slow reaction time. What I did find however was that women did better than men overall, on all four tests. My results also found that the age group that did the best was the 13-20 year old group. This did not agree with my hypothesis that presumed that the younger age group would do better. My results did however agree with my hypothesis in that the oldest age groups would do the worst considering that they suffer from poor vision and accuracy. The results showed that the age the reaction time of both men and women declined. They also showed that the test that had the best reaction time was the control, however the test with the worst reaction time was test sheet B, with the preceding color pattern. The men showed to have the most trouble with test sheet C., with a random color pattern where the women, on the other hand, had the most difficulty with test sheet B. Overall I found that the concept of color and word is very difficult, when an automatic stimulus such as reading words and a controlled stimulus such as saying color clash, a slowed reaction time in the

outcome. .