The Effects of Stroop Effect on the Population Automatic processes often require little to no central cognition to execute but those same processes are also hard to prevent from happening. Word recognition is a strong example of that process for experienced readers. As tasks become practiced, they become more automatic and require less and less central cognition to execute. It is then said to be nearly impossible to recognize a common word and not read it. The psychologist, J. Ridley Stroop, who first revealed the tendency for words to be recognized automatically has coined the phenomenon as the Stroop Effect (Anderson, Farrell, & Sauers, 1984). In Stroop Effect, it is predicted that participants will be faster at determining font color when the word name and ink color are the same than when they are different. The reaction time between the stimulus and the response would increase when the color of the word and the word itself are not the same. Also that the reaction time would decrease when the word and the color of the word are the same (Francis & Neath, 2014). Methods …show more content…
Participants then had to give the font color, regardless of the word, as quickly as possible. The independent variable from this experiment was whether the word name and font color were the same or different. The dependent variable from this experiment was the response time between the appearance of the stimulus and the participant’s response. The only trials that were kept from the experiment were the ones in which the participant responded correctly. If and only the trial was incorrect, it was then repeated in the experiment later (Francis & Neath,