Attention: Stroop 1935
|
| This article demonstrate the now classic 'Stroop Experiment'.
|
| |
|
|
| Authors |
|
Stroop J.R. |
| |
|
|
| APA Classification |
|
Attention (2346) |
| |
|
|
| Keywords |
|
Automaticity in reading, Interference, Verbal reaction, Attention, Memory and Thought |
| |
|
|
| Summary |
|
This is the classic experiment where participants are presented with words printed in colors that do not match the colors of the words (for instance, the word "red" might be printed in green ink). They are then expected to name the color of the word rather than the word itself (in the above example, saying "green"). |
| |
|
|
| Platform | | E-Prime v1.1 SP3 / 1.1.4.1 |
| | | |
| Base Hardware Requirements | | - Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
- Pentium Processor 1GHz or higher
- 512MB RAM or higher
- 4X AGP Video with 64MB RAM or higher
- Sound Blaster LIVE! Sound Card
- CD-ROM
- USB or Parallel Port
- Serial Port**
- Internet Connection
** For use with the PST Deluxe Serial Response Box. |
| | | |
| Citation | | Stroop, J.R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 643-662. |
| | | |
| Cited in | | Experimental Psychology |
| | | |
| Abstract | | In this study pairs of conflicting stimuli, both being inherent aspects of the same symbols, were presented simultaneously (a name of one color printed in the ink of another color--a word stimulus and a color stimulus). The difference in time for reading the words printed in colors and the same words printed in black is the measure of the interference of color stimuli upon reading words. The difference in the time for naming the colors in which the words are printed and the same colors printed in squares (or swastikas) is the measure of the interference of conflicting word stimuli upon naming colors. The interference of conflicting color stimuli upon the time for reading 100 words (each word naming a color unlike the ink-color of its print) caused an increase of 2.3 seconds or 5.6% over the normal time for reading the same words printed in black. This increase is not reliable. But the interference of conflicting word stimuli upon the time for naming 100 colors (each color being the print of a word which names another color) caused an increase of 47.0 seconds or 74.3% of the normal time for naming colors printed in squares. Tests on the permanency of the interference of conflicting word stimuli are also described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
| | | |
| Catalogued From |
|
STEP (System for Teaching Experimental Psychology)
http://step.psy.cmu.edu/scripts/Attention/Stroop1935.html (external link) |
| | | |
| Script Name | | http://step.psy.cmu.edu/scripts/ZipFiles/Stroop1935.zip
http://step.psy.cmu.edu/scripts/ZipFiles/riley.zip |
| | | |
| Sample Data Files | | http://step.psy.cmu.edu/scripts/ZipFiles/rileyData.zip |
| | | |
| |
|
|
| Catalogue Record Modified |
|
07/12/2005 |
| |
|
|
| Record Modified By |
|
Dipl.-Psych. C. Rebetez |
| |
|
|
