(Taken from Nolan and Heinzen). The Stroop Task is a psychological test in which color words (e.g., RED) are printed in a different color (e.g., blue). In the Stroop Effect it takes you longer to call our the color blue because you have to ignore your automatic reading of the word RED. Several researchers think that the Stroop effect can be decreased by hypnosis (turn off your ability to automatically read).
Raz (2005) used brain imaging techniques to demonstrate that post-hypnotic suggestion left highly hypnotizable individuals to see Stroop words as nonsense words. You are tasked with determining if the reaction times decrease (i.e., people get faster) when highly hypnotizable receive post-hypnotic suggestions to view the words as nonsensical. You conduct the experiment on six individuals once in each condition. You receive the following data, where the first number is the reaction time in second without post-hypnotic suggestion, the second number is the reaction time in seconds with post-hypnotic suggestion. Conduct all steps for hypothesis testing to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between reaction times to the Stroop task caused by hypnosis.
Please conduct the appropriate form of t-test.
a. Participant 1
12.6
8.5
b. Part2
13.8
9.6
c. Part3
11.6
10.0
d. Part4
12.2
9.2
e. Part5
12.1
8.9
f. Part6
13.0
10.8