Stroop Effect Essay

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Stroop Effect: The Effects of Matching Words and Colors on the Reaction Time for the Brain. Introduction: The Stroop Effect was discovered in the 1930's by J. Ridley Stroop. In this discovery, he found that when reading the names of colors, it's more difficult to say the actual color rather than the name of the color. An example of this would be if the color orange was written in green letters, then you would say "GREEN" rather than "ORANGE." This may seem to be an easy task, but once attempted it was made obvious that it takes much longer for the brain to process the fact that it has to say the color of the letters versus the actual word. Words take much less time to process than colors, which would explain why it took a longer amount of time to say the actual color of the text. Naming colors also requires a lot more attention than reading words. This would also be a reason as to why saying the color of the text might take longer. In order to see the difference between nameing colors with matching words and colors to nameing non-matching words and colors, we did three trials of each with five different test subjects and found the average of both tests. The matching words and colors was used as the control group while the non-matching words and colors was used as the test group. For each group we had an answer sheet with the correct colors that were to be said in order to make sure that the test was properly conducted. Everyone in our group had different ideas as to which would be faster, the matching or non-matching group. We also had multiple reasons as to why we thought these results would occur. Purpose: We did this experiment to see how the interference of the colored text affects the brain using the stroop effect test. In order to name the color instead of the word, it required more concentration and attention. Hypothesis: If given a list of

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