Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance

Question: Describe about the Journal of Experimental Psychology for Human Perception and Performance. Answer: 1: H1: Procrastination of attention is not correlated and has different mean values This statistics is dedicated towards analysing the correlation between procrastination and attention in terms of stroop interference. Stroop interference can be explained as the delay in identifying a sense if it is written in unconventional manner, which, in turn, indicates the extent, and more precisely, lack of attention towards the issue, rather than inattention (Bugg Hutchison, 2013). Such distinction between these two senses of attention is significant and more logical in analysing correlation between procrastination and attention. According to the Pearsons correlation value, there is no correlation between attention and procrastination in positive direction indicating an inverse proportional relation between these two parameters. This indicates that if attention decreases or stroop interference increases, then for an individual, it is more likely to procrastinate, identifying a negative correlationship between these two variables in incongruent trials. One tailed significance value of 0.445 indicates that there is considerably less similarity between the mean values, again indicating lack of positive correlation between procrastination of attention. Hence, it can be concluded that statistics is approving the test hypothesis (H1), meaning with changes in attention in terms of stroop interference, there is no change in procrastination in positive direction. However, the relationship is in negative direction. This result indicates that procrastination and attention are not directly interconnected to each other, in practice. Theoretically, this means, to a very less extent, an individual, paying more attention to an issue, will procrastinate less or might not postpone works than an individual with lesser extent of attention. 2: H1: Procrastination is not related to working memory. Statistical inference to test the formulated hypothesis indicates that there are comparatively higher correlation between working memory and procrastination. Pearsons correlation is comparatively higher indicating a relationship between the two variables. However, these variables move in their opposite direction that results negligence of these two factors. This indicates that if working memory increases, then procrastination decreases, or in other terms, individual with high working memory tend to procrastinate less (Meier Kane, 2013). Hence, from the analysis, it can be concluded that, if working memory, the short-term high speed memory required for prioritising and performing an immediate work increases, and then procrastinate tends to decrease, identifying a negative correlation between these two parameters. Dynamic condition of memory never leaves it in a relaxed mode during high requirement of emergency activity. Hence, it omits procrastination from the current condition and lets the work to be done in a quick and successful manner. Further, as per statistical viewpoint, 1 tailed significance value have also been found to be comparatively less indicating a comparable mean values of these two parameters, namely, working memory through OSPAN and procrastination. Not only an emergency task enhances memory function, but also continuous operation of a series of task develops the capacity of working memory. Therefore, it can be concluded that test hypothesis is true and there is negative correlation between working memory and procrastination. Apparently, there is less extent of correlation, which is practically non-significant; however, in terms of theory and statistics, if an individual can accommodate more working memory, then that individual will not procrastinate nor postpone or delay. On the other hand, if working memory is less, the person might have more tendency of delaying a work or will intentionally postpone it. Thus, it can be concluded that the correlation between working memory and procrastination work following the inversely proportional method. Reference list: Bugg, J. M., Hutchison, K. A. (2013), Converging evidence for control of colourword Stroop interference at the item level, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(2), 433 Meier, M. E., Kane, M. J. (2013), Working memory capacity and Stroop interference: Global versus local indices of executive control, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(3), 748