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The Stroop Effect is a phenomenon associated with neuropsychological and cognitive processes, and is used to investigate basic psychological functioning. ... Ridley Stroop, a psychologist, who exposed this phenomenon while working on his PhD. thesis in the 1930s; since then, there have been over seven hundred studies of the Stroop Effect exploring the results in some new way. (2) Essentially the Stroop Effect is demonstrated in the following manner: An individual is asked to read a series of words stating different colors in black and white, and then to repeat this by stating the color of the word with words in colors that are not the same as the color the word states. Individuals take much longer to complete the latter part of the test (the Stroop Effect). ... (1)
Stroop’s comment on his discovery is as follows: “This suggested a comparison of the interfering effect of colour stimuli upon reading names of colours (the two types of stimuli being presented simultaneously) with the interfering effect of word stimuli upon naming the colours themselves.” (4)
There are two major theories that attempt to elucidate the Stroop Effect. ... (5) Brain investigations using MRIs and PET scans have confirmed that the anterior cingulated appears to be a prime area in the resolution of the conflict seen by the Stroop Task. The Selective Attention Theory of the Stroop Effect states that naming colors requires more attention than reading words. (3)
Current theories on the Stroop Effect emphasize the interference that automatic processing of words has on the more effortful task of just naming the colors.
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