Scenario #1 – Stroop’s (1935) Experiment #2
| Main Motivating Research Question(s) | Participants & Their Communities | Specific Empirical Questions | Operationalized Categories |
| Why do humans tend to read words faster compared to colors naming and mostly ignore the printed words? | 20 – 30-year-old, both female and male randomly for two different communities:
Black Americans middle-class community of Los Angeles university students with decent living conditions.
Homeless people from Neza-Chalco-Itza, Mexico City, where living standards and daily spending is less than $1 per day and affected by the use of illegal substances.
Total participants: 100 people.
Reason for this age group: Most of the people are busy in their life either studying or trying to earn a decent living for the families to have a better life.
Thus, the brains of this age group are fully developed and actively engaged in one or the other way.
| How do both Los Angeles people behave compared to the Mexicans when exposed to certain stimuli?
Do the less privileged people take time to respond to the stimuli?
| Type of activities
Cross-section survey: using questionnaires to collect information from the respondents at a single period in time (like trying to investigate age, gender, and the most difficult color to be identified).
Work: activities that contributed to the household, offices, and streets. Performing assignments.
Forms of engagements Participation: contributing in the same way to the activities. Observation: carefully watching or tracking the responses given by the respondents during a particular activity. |
| Independent Variable(s) | |||
| Communities – 2 levels: Los Angeles and Neza-Chalco- Itza Mexico, City
Gender – 2 levels Male and female
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| Dependent Variable(s) | |||
| Amount of time spent on the survey (i.e., workshop activities)
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| Hypotheses/Expectations | |||
| The reaction time between the stimulus and the response will be shorter to the Los Angeles people since they have a more relaxed or stress-free brain; hence the matching of the font name and color will not greatly confuse them compared to those at Neza-Chalco- Itza Mexico, City.
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Scenario #2 – Class Stroop Experiment
| Main Motivating Research Question(s) | Participants & Their Communities | Specific Empirical Questions | Operationalized Categories |
| How quickly does the student respond to selective attention and cognitive flexibility and individual ability to shift cognitive? | 15-20 year old (½male and ½ female) all belong in the same class.
Total participants 60 students
Reason for this age group: everybody is a student where everyone is only focused on education and not largely involved in the community developments hence less workload.
| Are male students more affected compared to female students?
Does the physical growth of the female student affect the stimulus in the brain?
| Type of activities Lessons and cross-section surveys: using lecture like questions and answer responses to ask questions. For example, asking questions which you already know the answers.
Work: These are the activities that contribute to the school curriculum, research, and doing project work.
Form Of Engagement
Involvement in some way to an activity.
We are examining: by watching others during the event.
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| Independent Variable(s) | |||
| Communities – 1 level Class experiment Gender – 2 levels Female and male students
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| Dependent Variable(s) | |||
| Amount of time spent inactivity (i.e., lessons & work) Amount time spent in the form of engagement (i.e., participating in &observing lessons and work)
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| Hypotheses/Expectations | |||
| The reaction time between the stimulus and the response varies from one student to the other; this might be the result due to some of the students might be on the adolescent’s stage. It might lead to poor performance when compared to students without clinical diagnoses.
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Scenario #3 – Dog Companions and the Elderly
| Main Motivating Research Question(s) | Participants & Their Communities | Specific Empirical Questions | Operationalized Categories |
| Why dogs and the elderly have wonderful companions? | 60-80 years old, both female and male, from 2 different communities.
European American of California state. British Europeans in the United Kingdom. Total participants: 100 elderly people. | Why are dogs regarded as best friends among the elderly?
Does this relationship have health benefits?.
| Type of activity
Fieldwork: using questionnaires and observation to get responses from the respondents. For example, engage the elderly in the talks about pets. |
| Independent Variable(s) | |||
| Community – 2 Levels: America and the United Kingdom Gender – 2 Levels: Male & Female
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| Dependent Variable(s) | |||
| Amount of time spent inactivity (i.e., during one on one interviews) Amount of time spent in the form of engagement (i.e., fieldwork& observing in public parks)
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| Hypotheses/Expectations | |||
| Dogs enjoy companies of people who walks daily as leisure, playtime, and training sessions.
Keeping a dog has a pet has many health benefits to the elderly of living with a royal friend. For example, it helps in reducing blood pressure, lower cholesterol, lowering the feeling of being lonely, and improving the chances for socialization. | |||