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The Stroop effect, first identified by John Ridley Stroop in 1935, illustrates the difficulty in naming the color of a word when the word itself is a different color, highlighting the conflict between automatic processing and intentional control. The document outlines an experiment involving two age groups to measure reaction times, predicting that older participants will respond faster due to their experience. Results are expected to confirm that adults have quicker reaction times compared to younger individuals when faced with incongruent color-word pairs.

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The Stroop effect, first identified by John Ridley Stroop in 1935, illustrates the difficulty in naming the color of a word when the word itself is a different color, highlighting the conflict between automatic processing and intentional control. The document outlines an experiment involving two age groups to measure reaction times, predicting that older participants will respond faster due to their experience. Results are expected to confirm that adults have quicker reaction times compared to younger individuals when faced with incongruent color-word pairs.

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The Stroop Effect

The Stroop effect is a phenomenon in which it takes


longer to name the color of a word if the word itself
spells out a different color. This effect demonstrates
the struggle between automatic processing and
intentional control.

By- Samrath Singh Chauhan


Historical Background
The Stroop effect was first introduced in 1935 by John Ridley Stroop, who discovered that people had difficulty naming the
color of the ink used to print color words when the word itself was a different color. He called this phenomenon "interference,"
and his work became a foundation for future research in cognitive psychology.

John Ridley Stroop

Stroop was an American psychologist


who discovered the interference
phenomenon now known as the Stroop
effect.
The elegance of Stroop's research was to apply
experimental rigor and a clarity of explanation
that led to identification of the tested processes
with his name. Stroop developed a color-word
task to demonstrate interference between
reading an object's name and naming an object,
and explained some of its psychological
characteristics, which were later named the
Stroop effect.[
Attention and Automaticity
The Stroop effect demonstrates how automatic processing can interfere with intentional, effortful control. The
brain must resolve conflicting stimuli, balancing bottom-up processing of perception with top-down attentional
control.
Bottom-up processing Top-down processing Conflict resolution

The initial processing of The conscious, intentional The cognitive mechanisms that
sensory input, which happens control of attention and mediate the balance between
unconsciously and almost perception based on mental the two processing streams
immediately. models and goals. when they come into conflict.
Methods and experiment

The participants for this The participants for this

experiment will be recruited experiment will be recruited


1 from two age groups that are 2 from two age groups that are
16-18 and 30-40. The sample 16-18 and 30-40. The sample
size should be large enough to size should be large enough to
provide sufficient statistical
provide sufficient statistical
power and reliability in the
power and reliability in the
results.
results

Reaction time will be measured using a


computer-based software or a reaction time
3 device. Participants will be instructed to reads the
letters aloud after the finish reading the simple
and the coloured blocks. The software/device will
record the time for each from the onset of the
stimulus to the participant's response.
5 Predicted Outcome:
It is predicted that participants in the experimental group
will exhibit longer reaction times compared to the control
group. The interference caused by the incongruent color-
word pairs is expected to result in a delay in response as
participants need to overcome the conflict between color
and meaning. color-word pairs (e.g., the word "RED"
written in red). The manipulation of congruency will allow
us to observe the effect of interference on reaction time.

6 Which also confirms that people tend to have


contrasting times due to their individual
responses to the experiments and considering
out hypothesis we can conclude that older
tend to read correctly and have a much faster
reaction time due to the colored words.
Results
Analysis-
The numbers we are comparing are the two age groups which
is 16-18 and 40-50 that are the reaction times of people who
were a part of the Stroop test.

Conclusion Interpretation -
Outcome of the is result was something I had expected that
the adults would have a much more faster reaction time than
the high school kids whereas we can see in the following tables
the reaction times have a major difference and supporting my
evidence using a scientific study concluded my research that
adults have a higher reaction times than the high school kids.

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