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sophie b.'s picture

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Acting Thinking Reading Negating
Control 336 441 425 575
Watching TV 494 713 900 884
Difference 158 290 475 309

 

For my experiment I decided to watch TV while I performed the experiment, I kept the experiment in my peripheral vision as I was watching television. My reaction time slowed significantly while I watched TV, probably because I needed to visually concentrate on both things.

I thought it was interesting that the difference between both reading times was significantly larger than the difference between the negating times. I think that perhaps the break to commercial had an effect on my reaction time, as the show that I was watching went to commercial during the negation test, maybe because I was less interested in the TV during commercials, my time went down. 

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