The Stroop Effect is an experiment that John Ridley Stroop, discovered in the 1930s. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, March 21, 1897 and completed his training at Peabody College where he received his Ph.D. degree. Although several other researchers studied it, it was named after Stroop, and he also published a paper on it in 1935. The Stroop Effect is a demonstration of how the interference of conflicting information between the brain and the eyes can slow down the reaction time in some
A twist on The Stroop Effect with shapes Everyday we read, talk, breathe and blink. These actions we engage in are automatic because they happen without us thinking about them. Understanding the underlying mechanisms behind our thinking, we can conclude how these processes are affected and manipulated. In the classic Stroop Paradigm (Stroop, 1935), participants were asked to respond to the Color ink and ignore the spelling of the word being displayed. The results conveyed that those in the group
experiment was to basically analyze how fast the brain can perceive color and describe words simultaneously with the Stroop Effect theory. The Stroop Test is also done to determine new findings on the human’s brain automaticity and how it processes certain functions. In reference, to the independent and dependent variables involved, the independent variable in this experiment would be the color word followed by the conflicting color and the dependent would be the time that it took for the applicant
Examination of the Stroop Effect among College Students Esmeralda Fierro Dixie State University Abstract 250 word summary of the paper One paragraph only Do not indent the paragraph An Examination of the Stroop Effect among College Students The Stroop experiment by J. Ridley Stroop in 1935 was performed in order to analyze the reaction time of participant’s stimuli and desired results while also obtaining a collective result of color interference and word reading(Stroop, 1935; Lee & Chan,
Understanding the Results: The Breakdown of the Stroop Effect The beauty of science is the fact that it is not ever a complete certainty. There are times when an experiment might yield results that conflict with prior results in past experiments, which then forces the researcher to try to account for the possibility of new findings that lay outside the range of prior discourse. This is the case here, where a variation of the Stroop test was conducted, with atypical results. After coming to these
The Stroop Effect is a popular phenomenon used throughout experimental psychology. It detects interference and inhibition by having participants’ naming at the color ink presented on paper or index cards and not being conflicted by other stimulations such as the written word. It is measured by the delay in response time. J. Ridley Stroop (1935) designed the original Stroop test using multiple experiments. He discovered in his second experiment that it took participants longer to name the color
Literature Red, Green, Purple, Blue! Neurologists test the brain’s cognitive skills by trying to determine the text of the word the color is printed in; in which they have to differentiate the color from the meaning of the word. The subject is shown a color, and it will take the person longer to identify the color of the word, if the word is in an incongruent word color. This cognitive phenomenon is more commonly known as the Stroop Effect. The Stroop Effect is a study that lead to the occurence where
The Effect of the Stroop Effect on Accuracy, Time and Self-Confidence Levels Stroop’s 1935 study was the first experiment to test the Stroop effect as we know it now. The Stroop task measures the participants’ ability to ignore some parts of the stimuli, either the color of the word or what the word actually reads and pay attention to others. This is especially the case when the stimuli is incongruent, or when color written does not match the color of the font it is written in. The research question
Based on my experience with the Stroop effect I have concluded the test with the conflicting words and colors showed increased complexity. I realized during the test that the incompatible inputs created conflict in my mind. In order for me to formulate a response I had to disqualify an input and validate the solution prior to the final answer. According to George Washington University’s cognitive psychology department this phenomena is due to the top down processing theory. This theory
Introduction In 1935, John Ridley Stroop further researched and printed the whole idea of the Stroop effect which is also named after himself. The main purpose of the stroop experiment is to time how fast the participants are to respond to different coloured stimuli presented to them in different conditions. This measures the cognitive ability of the individuals involved as it tests the memory and focus. The work of John Ridley Stroop was originally a study that came from James McKeen Cattell (1991)