Name: Jimmy Williams

Background: Ever since Jimmy started to play puzzle games such as chess, he has always been interested in the way his mind can randomly come up with a strategy to win or beat the puzzle. Once he got into college, he got involved in psychological experiments. He was interested in testing how fast his cognitive processing was. He discovered a research project at Stony Brook University that has the possibility to benchmark certain results of cognitive processing.

I am excited for the development of this project and can’t wait to test it out on different people.

Name: Jim Masters

Background: Jim is a student at Haskell High School. Jim has always been interested in cognitive psychology, so choosing a project for his school’s science fair was easy. Jim wants to test his classmates’ ability to overcome cognitive interference, so he sets up an experiment using the Stroop Effect. Rather than going through the long and arduous process of creating his own set up of flash cards and a stopwatch, in which he has to manually perform the test and record times, Jim finds the Shoot For the Stroop test online. The test is already set up for Jim, and it runs itself, so all he needs is a microphone to record responses. Jim is pleased to find that not only does the program record user response times automatically and accurately, but it also calculates mean response time. Using this test Jim is able to easily and accurately measure the effect of interference on mental processing, as well as secure Jim a good grade on his project.

This program saved me a lot of time and trouble with my project, and my classmates and I had fun playing with it.