Stroop

Introduction The famous “Stroop Effect” is named after psychologist John Ridley Stroop. He developed his study into an experiment that has since become fundamental for the field of cognitive psychology. This test is a study of how interference affect brain processes. Interference is the theory regarding human memory. Interference occurs when is an interaction the new material being processed is affected by past learned material that can have a negative influence in comprehending the new material

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 objects of incongruent context and word display are used to find the reaction time it takes to determine the context of the word. The original way that is used to test the Stroop Effect is by printing a name of a color, in a

The Stroop Effect is a psychological occurrence, and is usually defined as the inability to say words that are the names of colors, yet colored in a different ink color than the color’s name (example: green). This was first documented by John Ridley Stroop, in 1935, and he found that it took almost 74% longer for a person to read those words with incongruent colors as opposed to those same words being printed in just black. Some other researchers later used his findings and began to test the Stroop

An experiment to investigate the Stroop effect in which participants are asked to name the colour in which a word is written, that word having either a colour- association or a neutral association. ABSTRACT. This study was an investigation of the cognitive processes at work during a variation of the classic Stroop test and effect, in which the degree of intrusion into automatic thought processes may be witnessed in a colour identification task. It was found that the rate of word identification

(from 1 to A; A to 2; 2 to B and so on)” and join all numbers and letters together. However, low scores in both parts of the TMT tests indicate an improved performance (Hayes et al., 2011). Another six studies test performed during the study was Stroop Color and Word test. The test score was based on observing the participants performance. The participants were asked to call out the color letters printed in black ink in 45 seconds. They mentioned color of letter Xs. Moreover, colored words test

Abstract The goal of this rendition of John Stroop’s classic Stroop Effect experiment is to obtain and demonstrate the reaction time needed to mentally process the tasks given (colors and words) under the two different conditions (congruent and incongruent). A prediction of the result was made using the speed of processing theory, which implies that different tasks are processed cognitively at different rates, showing the difference in processing rates (times) for relevant and irrelevant information

The aim of this experiment was to test how the automatic processing of reading interferes with the controlled processing of naming a colour. The findings support the original previous research (Stroop, 1935) as a significant difference was found which indicates that when the controlled process of naming a colour is not interfered with then it can be recognized faster whereas when the automatic processes of reading words is involved then the time taken to name the colour is slower due to the interference

Kelly Featherston Article Summary – Psych 302 Introduction Ullsperger, Bylsma, and Botvinick (2005) investigated whether the findings of Mayr, Awh, and Laurey (2003) can be replicated and how much they can be shown across different task performances. Their specific study was motivated by a prior experiment where Gratton, Coles, and Donchin (1992) found that after an incompatible type trial reaction times were reduced and target processing occurred more frequently than flanker processing on the

The next cognitive ability to examine is visual spatial abilities. This field also lacked in published experiments, especially for adults. Visual spatial abilities is included because of curiosity, but also since it is a huge neuropsychological factor of intelligence that neurologists study. In an experiment done by Blom et al with children from the Netherlands, aged six to seven, they unfortunately did not find any differences between bilinguals and the control group monolinguals for verbal and

Developmental change in the cross-modal Stroop effect The study written about here’s aim was to look at the development of selective attention by using the cross-model Stroop test. The study used fifteen 4-5 year olds, fifteen 6-7 year olds, fifteen 9-11 and thirty undergraduates to participate in the study. The participants were tested individually in a lab and were told they would play a computer game, the aim of the game was to name to colour that appeared of the computer screen however they were