Impact of Stress on Reaction Time: A Quantitative Research Report

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The physiological response to stressful situation

TAQ 1
a) The title of the report is The physiological response to stressful situation.
b) The topic area is physiological responses for any stressful situation and the report is focusing
of testing period of respondents for stress and reaction. Effect of stress on reaction time is
investigated.
c) The physiological responses lead to focus the reaction time and decreasing the attention and
concentration (Stephens et al., 2015). The research will focus on mental satisfaction due to
stress by assessing the stress. It is important to focus on reviewing the quantifications of stress by
using the reaction time. Mental satisfaction due to stress of reaction time have been focused to
confirm the mental tasks and quantifications. The research proposal will focus on psychological
responses of stressful situation. This can be done and devised for enhancing the carrying the
research. Mental stress implication on reaction time are main concerns of the study as focusing
on research hypothesis and aim on physiological focus on stress and satisfaction (Crescentini et
al., 2016).
d) The aim of the research proposal is to focus on the effect of stress (high or low) on reaction
time.
e) There will be significant differences between the reaction times of people who are suffering
from stress than those who are experiencing less stress.
f) H0: There will be no differences between reaction times of people who are suffering from
stress than those who are experiencing less stress.
g) The main objectives are:
● To focus on effects of stress on reaction time
● To investigate the reaction times of people who are suffering from stress
● To evaluate the physiological responses towards the people suffering from stress
● To recommend the treatment procedures for stress level
TAQ 2
Summary of the plan:
It is planned to carry out the research through quantitative analysis based on the research aim.
The research is planned to investigate the hypothesis and research objectives as developing the
instructions and experimental sampling for measuring stress level. It will be developed to focus
on research methods and data analysis for practical Investigation on the physiological aspect of

stress. It will identify the research method how it can be analysed and focused. Psychological
aspect for reaction can have recognition experiments to develop the research. Data collection will
be developed using the practical implementation and online test for reaction.
Methods:
The online reaction time test for measuring the reaction time will be developed. Quantitative
research analysis will be done by focusing on testing reaction times for measuring a person's
reaction time in involving a traffic light with red, yellow, and green light. The participants have 5
minutes to to taste and focus on the experiments of high stress and uses. Some participants will
be selected for the developing the grouping for apparatus and the procedure to take the online
test.
IV and DV:
IV means independent variables for measuring the research context and analysis in descriptive
statistics. DV means dependant variables to focus on measuring the subject design for
developing result for the online test (Taylor et al., 2015).
Conducting investigation:
The investigation will be conducted through the online medical test. Reaction test through
measuring the online test of 50 people will be scored and measured for data analysis. Survey and
random sampling will be done on considering the experiments for measuring the stress level.
Data collection:
After the test will be done, data will be collected from the 50 participants and data analysis will
be conducted. The participants will be instructed with measuring the online test and reaction to
the research.
Variables:
Variables are reviewed to investigate the research objective and hypothesis (Goodman et al.,
2017). Confounding variables can change the effect for dependent and independent variable for
the study. Physiological and determination of high stress level are variables for the research.
Ethical guidelines:
Researcher will develop and categorise the research according to ethical considerations. The
researcher will provide the valid data from the online test as it will be focused to ensure the stress
and reaction time from the measurement. The confidential and sensitive data should be ensured
and protected with terms and conditions.

TAQ 3
The proposal has been done and conducted with specific aim and objectives on the the research
topic.
TAQ 4
Tasks Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Background
reading
Writing up
introduction
and
references
Methodology
section
Carrying out
the practical
Collecting
and analysing
data
Completing
discussion
Conclusion
and abstract
Table 1: Timeframe
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TAQ 5
Abstract

The research is focused to discuss the physiological stress and increased risk of diseases of
individual, who suffers from the relationship measurements. It is focused and analysed the
methods of researching to focus and develop the relationship to adopt the psychological stress.
The online test is conducted to report and compare the stress level. The research hypothesis has
been developed to identify the research background and basic research development on the topic.
The research has been found positive hypothesis.
Introduction
Physiological stress among people has been reported for increasing risk of disease as per the
person's adaptive capacity. Psychological stress is considered to influence physiological
processes and a existing disease states and risk factors in depression, cardiovascular disease,
respiratory infections, and others diseases (Villada et al., 2016). Comparing stress level, it is
important to focus on reaction time for any experimental psychological activity. Body’s
responses for stress are natural and automatic to perceive upsetting and stressful situation.
Existing literature is found to discuss the stress level for threatening situation, which can be
perceived as a threat level for producing physiological responses. Self reporting requirement for
response can be focused by implementing in attentional resource theory. Mental stress focuses on
psycho-physiological state of people while it affects the implication on reaction time (Mozos et
al., 2017). Stress is focused as common in everyday life to increase the attention and
concentration on any activity. The research is focused on mental satisfactory performance level
and monitoring of mental stress to assess and use the reaction time.
Concept and theories for physiological stress has focused to measure the stress level of
individual as linking the reaction and supporting of understanding the stress and ideal level.
Theory of Emotion by James-Lange is useful to correlate the stress and emotion to measure the
reaction time of individual (Sladek et al., 2016). Emotional behaviour of individual is not
possible for succeeding the perception, which can be connected for body's responses to stress.
The theory is effective to focus and discuss the physiological stress response of individual while
responding to environmental stresses. Psychological stress is measured by the biological factors
and forces of functions, which release the cytokine as scoring the health impacts and
employment status (Zheng et al., 2016). It addresses the distribution of stress level across

demographic factors. The emergency theory focuses on physiological responses of one's body
while recognising slowly by the brain as compared to releasing emotional responses. On the
other hand, the theory can be applied to expand ideas on emotional responses in the context of
sympathetic nervous system and physiological responses to stress (Clemente‐Suarez et al.,
2018). The study is focused on physiology responses and the effect of stress on reaction time.
The literature and theoretical context focus on measurement and the effect of stress in the context
of reaction time while understanding the stress level of individual which is developed through
the hypothesis testing. Hypothesis has been developed to focus on the perceived stress and a
physiologic test, which affect the pathology and illness behaviour of individual. Psychometric
qualities of scale in the context of reaction scale and stress level is widely accepted while
perceived stress is tested to measure the stress level in pathological context (Buckert et al.,
2017).
Aim
The aim of the research proposal is to focus on the effect of stress (high or low) on reaction time.
Hypothesis
H1: There will be significant differences between the reaction times of people who are suffering
from stress than those who are experiencing less stress.
H0: There will be no differences between reaction times of people who are suffering from stress
than those who are experiencing less stress.
Method
Design:
Research has been performed to analyse the online reaction test and perceived test to follow and
analyse the participant's stress level to environmental stressors. Research design focuses on
primary quantitative analysis on the statistical test .It establishes the details and subject design to
develop IV and DV for analysing the data. Research measurement and subject design have been
chosen as per the dependent variable and independent variable to process the method for online
response test (Esposito et al., 2017). It is sufficient to develop primary research with quantitative
survey. Physiological stress and the response to the test will be described in result.
Participants:
50 respondents has been selected as a participants for testing the hypothesis. The online test has
been done with them for delivering the reaction time, test measurement of reaction time, and

perceived stress scale for individual. The online reaction time test involves the traffic light with
green, yellow, and red light on it. Stress level of the measurement and information are to focus
on state of person stress among the participants (Bryman, 2016). The two groups in the
experiment have been focused with high stress and the low stress from the scoring system. From
the fifty respondents, 30 participants are male and 20 participants are female. The age was
between 20 to 58 among the respondents.
Apparatus:
The perceived stress scale, computers and data recording sheets have been used as apparatus for
the survey. The participant’s reaction times are focused by the apparatus and skills and it is
needed to record the results.
Procedure:
The participants are introduced about the instructions to take online test. The participants are
informed about the brief and about the variables while measuring the reaction times and stress at
the point. The participants are focused to explain which is looking at the reaction times and age
and gender of the respondents. Participants and score on the perceived stress scale is important to
measure the reaction times in traffic light result of each attempt. Reaction time and
measurements are focused to enhance the participants perceived stress and reaction time.
Ethical issues are faced while conducting the online test. Participants are asked before doing the
test. Participants who have heart disease and other chronic disease are not considered to be able
to take the test. The stress scale is administered and scored as develop stress level.
(Refer to Appendices)
Results
Results sheet 1.
Participant
number
Score on the
perceived stress
scale
Ruler drop in
cms/traffic light
result on each
attempt
Average of all
5 conditions
Reaction time
in
milliseconds
1. 3 1. 3 2

2. 4
3. 5
4. 1
5. 1
2 2 1. 0.5 1
2. 0.2
3. 0.6
4. 0.7
5. 0.9
3 1 1. 2 2
2. 1
3. 1
4. 2
5. 1
4 4 1. 0.1 1
2. 0.004
3. 0.47
4. 1.2
5. 1.5
5 1 1. 1.7 1.4

2. 1.8
3. 1.4
4. 1.3
5. 0.22
6 2 1. 1.2 1.12
2. 1.8
3.2.1
4.4.7
5.1.2
7 4 1.1.4 1.14
2.4.5
3.1.2
4.1
5.0.2
8 1 1. 0.2 2
2.0.
3.0.002
4.0.04
5.0.03

Results sheet 2.

Participant
number
from results
sheet 1
Score on the
perceived stress
scale from
highest to lowest
Tick the box to indicate what level of
stress your participant in at the moment
Reaction
time in
milli-
seconds
Low Stress
0-13
Medium
Stress
14-26
High Stress
27-40
1 2 
2 1 
3 1 
4 1 
5 1 
6 1 
7 2 
8 2 
9 2 
10 22 
11 22
12 1 
13 2 
14 5 
15 4 
16 4 

17 5 
18 4 
19 4 
20 5 
21 4 
22 2 
23 1 
24 2 
25 1 
26 2 
27 1 
28 3 
29 3 
30 3
31 3 
32 3 
33 3 
34 3 
35 2 
36 1 