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Luisana Taveras and Rachel Mabe

The train of thought is suspectible to deviate. We are prone to losing focus when there are outside influences that prolongs the final thought process and therefore reaction to a certain stimulus. For this reason we are testing whether or not disturbing the peace gets in the way of the "thinking time". We propose that by adding an outside factor as another task in each case, the thinking process will be longer.

Rachel

Act Act with disturbance

283 (standard deviation of 57) vs 381 (150)

Think Think with disturbance

397 (75) vs 470(132)

Read Read with disturbance

483 (87) vs 879 (141)

Negate Negate with disturbance

590 (48) vs 821 (230)

Luisana (avg mili sec)

Act Act with disturbance

298 vs 381

Think Think with disturbance

367 vs 407

Read Read with disturbance

571 vs 594

Negate Read with disturbance

674 vs 764

Based on the data we collected, thinking is definitly a process that takes time. The more energy needed to focus on the direct stimulus has a direct correlation with the amount of time it takes to process that stimulus and react to it accordingly. The more successive task needed to be accomplished, the longer it will take for the reaction to be executed. Both internal and external forces can add stress/ pressure/etc and as a result affect not only the reaction time but the accuracy in reacting. The immense increase i in the standard deviation with disturbances works to supports this idea.