Stroop Effect
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INTRODUCTION
---The Stroop Effect is an experiment that refers to the observation that people take a longer time to name the color of a word when that word's meaning is different from the actual color the word itself. Observations from the classic demonstration revealed that participants were able to name the colors of solid blocks quicker than they could name the colors of words. Selective attention appears to be effected by this phenomenon, as people tend to be distracted by the meanings of the words, and thus find it hard to focus on the color of the word. However, people tend to perform quicker with solid blocks of color, because there is no meaning to distract them.
Summary of Results
According to the text, participants in the original study took an average of 110 seconds for part "A" (words) and an average of 63 seconds for part "B" (solid blocks) of the experiment. The results of my demonstration are consistent with this original Stroop demonstration done by J.R Stroop in 1935. The participants were quicker when naming the colors of the solid blocks, than they were when naming the colors of the words. The participants in my study averaged around the same time as the participants in the original study.
In the classic experiment, participants took an average of 110 seconds when naming the colors of words...