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    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

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    Stroop Effect Lab Report

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    THE STROOP EFFECT EXPERIMENT 1 The Stroop Effect Experiment Elizabeth N. Phaiboon Bellevue College, Psychology 100 Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Elizabeth Phaiboon. Email: Elizabeth.Phaiboon@bellevuecollege.edu THE STROOP EFFECT EXPERIMENT 2 Abstract The aim of this experiment was to investigate the Stroop effect; and the difference in reaction time between conflicting words and color stimuli. In particular, laboratory trials

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    In 1935, the Stroop Effect was first established by John Ridley Stroop. Research done by John Ridley Stroop emphasizes the processing of words that it has on the more studious challenge of naming just the ink color. The Stroop Effect is a proof of interference in the reaction time of an exercise. In the Stroop Effect, subjects are tested only on naming colors of incompatible words and of control patches (MacLeod 1991). Many tests can be distributed, all varied in the colors and words. Any color

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    Introduction The subject of study in this experiment is the Stroop Effect. The Stroop Effect was discovered by John Ridley Stroop, a psychologist in the early twentieth century. The Stroop effect concerns a phenomenon known as cognitive interference, whereby multiple processes occurring in the brain interfere with one another. When one is reading the names of colours which are printed in a different colour than the colour described by the word, one reads more slowly and with less accuracy than when

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    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

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    yielded the Stroop Effect was designed to help us understand how the brain processes information. Experiments that produce the Stroop Effect require the brain to deal with potentially conflicting information. Stroop task produces response conflict because we have a prepotent tendency to process words over retrieving names of colors. It requires the ability to ignore irrelevant textual information and inhibit oneself from reading the words aloud. The short description of the Stroop Effect is that the

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    The Stroop Effect Experiment Essay

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    The Stroop experiment can be traced back as far as the nineteen century around the time of some particular works of Cattell and Wundt. The experiment was first written about in 1929 in German. The experiment was name after John Ridley Stroop after he had written the article “Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions,” which was published in 1935.there have been over 700 replications of this experiment The experiment is a demonstration of reaction time of a task . The Stroop experiment

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    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

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    Abstract An experiment was conducted to test the effect of lateralization and congruency on reaction time to name colors. This was done using a computer program provided by The University of Mississippi. This effect is called the stroop effect. Results showed that it was neither lateralization nor congruency had a significant effect on reaction time, but the interaction of these two variables that created a significant change in the time needed to recognize colors. It is believed that this is

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    The Stroop effect: how your brain reacts to conflicting information You can’t always believe what you see. You may have learned your colors before you learned how to read, but what happens when there is conflict between both color recognition and word recognition? The Stroop effect uses the conflict between words and colors to show, how your brain reacts to the conflicting information between the two. By psychologist definition the Stroop effect is a demonstration of interference in the reaction

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