The Stroop Test

The ability to focus on more things than one is challenging to say the least, although numerous individuals stake claim with the belief of having the proper qualification to do that such thing. However, is it possible for everyone to have such potentiality to multitask and focus their attention in a way most people cannot. Yes, it is possible, however, that is not what the Stroop Test focuses on, but instead on direct attention. The Stroop Effect, also known as the Stroop Test, challenges the aforementioned assertion of the ability to focus directly on one thing with the thought that attention should be stronger that what it is, but that it is overlooked by simple processes of the brain. By providing a background description of the test, I

My results of the test was fairly within the expected range that I periodically place in. For the first part of the experiment my time was 6.045 seconds, and the second part of the experiment my time was 16.168 seconds. I have scored higher and I have scored lower on the test mostly due to familiarity of the experiment. The individual that I asked to participant had times of 9.501 seconds on the first half of the experiment and 20.553 on the second half. He was shocked by his initial scores and was confused on how the test could be that challenging, however, declined the opportunity to do another trial. The test did show that the brain quickly offered the wrong answer during the second part of the

The Stroop Test has been experimented on numerous times, and because of so, multiple reliability tests have been performed. One such is the test-retest reliability which was given to nearly 30 college students. A total of four tests were given which occurred on two occasions that were spaced by one week. The results produced significant data of coefficients. However, the test-retest were found not to be significant when using different scoring methods. Although the data for the experiment given to college students produced vary results, this does not mean that the Stroop Test is not reliable. The Stroop Test has been considered to be reliable by different academics, one in whom correlates cognitive functioning with the test. Some consider that the test can be used to help in diagnosing patients with different brain