... thereby affecting the display size. In the feature condition, the subject should still be able to respond immediately, even when the number of distracter items in the display is increased. As opposed to the conjunctive search condition, where selective use of attention is required, therefore, the reaction time should increase as the number of distracter items in the display increases. Dependent Variable This experiment is interested in measuring the reaction time (how long it takes the subject to find and respond to a particular item in the display or when they are certain that the specific item is not in the display), to see if it will increase with background complexity or more distracters in the display. Independent Variable The number of distracters is manipulated by surrounding the target with distracters that either did or did not share the task irrelevant features with the target. Group Results Generally, results showed a serial search for conjunction conditions ...

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