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An 8 page investigation of the Stroop phenomena, that phenomena involving certain peculiarities in serial verbal reactions. The author explores the original literature investigating this phenomena and provides contemporary evidence as to why it occurs. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPstroop.rtf
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The phenomena now known as the Stroop effect has been acknowledged since the end of the nineteenth century. It involves certain peculiarities in serial verbal reactions. This phenomena
gained its name, from the researcher J. Ridley Swoop who presented a detailed discussion of the findings of other researchers as well as his own in a study originally published
in 1935. Stroop observed that when subjects were presented with the stimuli of written words for particular colors, words which themselves are presented in colored font which does not
match the color the text of the word entails, they most often mentally processed the writing quickly than they did the color. Given the word "RED", for example, in
a green font, the word "BLUE" in a yellow font, the word "GREEN" in a blue font, along with several other word/color combinations and told to announce the color of
the font for each word as quickly as possible; subjects almost invariably encountered difficulty. Most experienced an interference between the two separate pieces of information being projected in this
experiment. The text of the word interfered with the ability to enunciate the color of the word. Rather than saying "green", "yellow", and "blue" they might give the correct
response of "green" followed by two incorrect responses of "blue" and green". Most, in fact, would announce the word rather than the color font for several of the word/color
combinations. As would be expected, the propensity for error increased with the number of word/color combinations they encountered. Obviously, for most individuals, the text itself exerts a strong
influence over the ability to enunciate the colors (Chudler, 2003). While several theories have been used to explain the Stroop Effect, two in particular stand out. These are
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