The Stroop Effect is a test that tests the mental state of the person. For this experiment, I will test the reaction time between the test when the color and word are the same (Matching) and when the color and word are different (Mis-Matching). Next, you see the differences in the reaction times and average up all the times. After, you do that step three times, see the difference between the 1st try and the 3rd try. How is reaction time ( which is how fast you can do something) related to the Stroop Effect?
John Ridley Stroop, a psychologist, first described the stroop effect. He was born 40 miles from Nashville in a farm. His discovered the stroop effect on 1930 and published in 1935. No one notice the importance of this until 1970.
The sense are connected to the brain. One if the sense that is related to my project is sight. Colors plays an important role in my experiment because you are suppose to read the color and not the words. Color also plays an important role in
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For that reason, younger children would be better than adults because they have a limited understanding of words. A way to explain it is ‘inference’ (which is Stroop Effect) . Inference suggests that you aren’t in control of what you are paying attention (which is focusing on something and sometime forget about other things) to. For example, even if you are thinking the correct answer, you might say the wrong thing.
The theories that are used to explain the ‘Stroop Effect’ is the speed of processing theory, and the selective attention theory. The speed of processing theory says that colors are named slower than the words being read. The selective attention theory shows that reading words need less attention than reading color. Both theories state that words are easier to resight than colors. Perception (which is the amount of awareness about something) is another thing that is