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5 pages in length. The Stroop effect assumes that naming the color of words in different colors will be accomplished in a slower fashion than the ability to name color bars, because reading is automatic and interferes with our ability to name the color of the word. Studying whether or not the Stroop effect is limited or encouraged by age, this example experiment found there to be little if any difference in the time factors between two divergent participants. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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accomplished in a slower fashion than the ability to name color bars, because reading is automatic and interferes with our ability to name the color of the word. Studying
whether or not the Stroop effect is limited or encouraged by age, this example experiment found there to be little if any difference in the time factors between two divergent
participants. II. INTRODUCTION Developed in the 1930s by J. Ridley Stroop, the Stroop effect refers to the minds inability to look beyond the written word when that word is
colored differently than what it says. Inasmuch as "the words themselves have a strong influence over your ability to say the color" (Chudler, 2003), the brains difficulty to differentiate
between the written word and its actual color speaks to an interference between what the eye sees and what the mouth wants to say (Stroop, 1935). Historically, there have
been two primary theories of interference by which the Stroop effect has been explained: 1) Speed of Processing Theory, which suggests the interference occurs due to the fact that words
are processed and, therefore, read faster than the time it takes to assimilate the colors they represent; and 2) Selective Attention Theory, which suggests the interference occurs due to the
fact that naming colors entails additional attention when compared to that of merely reading the words (Chudler, 2003). Given the extensive nature of testing this neuroscientific phenomenon has undergone
over the past decades, it stands to reason that no matter ones age, the Stroop effect will exact the same results upon old and young alike. This experiment will
set out to demonstrate how a sixty-eight-year-old adult has just as much difficulty with interference as does an eight-year-old child. III. METHODS Participants included two individuals: an African-American eight-year-old
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