Bilingual Subject Experiment

An experiment that involved the testing of bilingual subjects in a counting process involving visual perception was performed. The Stroop phenomenon, in which delay and disruption increases the difficulties associated with the visual perception of data, was specifically addressed in this experiment.

To test the hypotheses formulated for this study, a sample of bilingual students was selected to act as an experimental group, and an equallysized sample of unilingual students was selected to act as a control group. Each groupexperimental and controlwere required to perform identical tasks. The performance of the two groups was then assessed through the application of analysis of variance procedures. Two hypotheses were accepted and one hypothesis was rejected. The hypothesis positing that, when digits are stated in different ways, bilinguals will experience difficulties regardless of the specific task involved, was accepted. Similarly, the hypothesis positing that, when naming a number interferes with counting the number, bilinguals will require a longer time to complete the counting task, was also accepted. The hypothesis positing that, when more than one response output is required, bilinguals will require a longer time to complete the count, was, however, rejected.

The findings of this experiment are generally consistent with the literature. Further, the findings of this

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study found that the college students performed at high levels, while the elderly persons did not. Once again, an agerelation to the isolate effect appeared to be present. Several studies conducted in the mid and late1970s investigated the impact of serial position on the isolation effect. Huang, Scale, and McIntyre (1976, pp. 153165) found that the isolation effect was a function of the serial position of the isolated item. They also found that the isolation effect was greatest when the isolated was located in central list positions, as opposed to peripheral positions. This finding was confirmed by Lippman (1978, pp. 697706), who found that total list learning was facilitated when the isolate was placed at the seventh position in a 12item consonantvowelconsonant (CVC) list. A subsequent study confirmed the greater isolation effect attained through the location of isolated items at the center positions of a list (Huang and Wille, 1979, pp. 2734). This study, however, failed to confirm the findings of a positive isolation effect on total list learning. In the context of the impact of the serial position of the isolate on learning, it is worthwhile to consider the findings of Miller (1956, p
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