Reaction Time, Synesthesia, and Sense Perception

Activity A—sense perception, reaction time, and learning
3.) Played the game 5 times, here are the recorded results:

Trial	Number of Dots	Percentage Change in Score*
1	32	0%
2	35	(35-32)/32 * 100=9.40%
3	39	(39-32)/32 * 100=21.8%
4	40	(40-32)/32 * 100=25.0%
5	40	25.0%

4.) Sense perception and reason affected my score because as I continued to do it I became faster as I was more focused and therefore aware of the blog dot, I also realized I could click quicker and still wouldn't miss any most of the time. My reaction time improved each time, and I definitely learned from early trials.

Activity B—synesthesia and the Stroop test

7.) Synesthesia is condition where senses cross over, for example, when someone hears certain sounds when they see certain colors, or tastes certain tastes when they hear certain music intervals.

8.) When I listen to various sorts of music I just experience the hearing sense, unfortunately. I feel like I would like to have synesthesia, it sounds like you can experience life more that way.

11.) Records for Interactive Stroop Effect Experiment:

 

Word Set 1 Time =20.182

Word Set 2 Time = 20.826

Difference:20.826-20.182=0.644

(I expected the first word set to be words with different colors, I didn't realize it was just all the words with their own color at first, so I went a lot slower than I would have if I had known that.)

12.) The Stroop Effect is when the brain has to deal with two stimuli simultaneously and thus its operations are slowed, like when it is trying to name a color of a word that is a different color. This shows that the interference of different stimuli in the environment can slow down the brain's basic processes as it gets overwhelmed with, for example, determining a color and reading a word, which is does at different speeds to begin with.