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Stroop Test
A cognitive test investigating automatic information processing. In the original Stroop test, named after its discoverer, Stroop, participants were asked to name the color of a written word where the word itself is a color word. For example, the word green would appear in red, and the participant would be expected to respond “Red,” that is, naming the color of the written word. However, as reading is an automatic skill, many participants have difficulties naming the color of the word, as they cannot avoid also reading the word. As a result, the response time of participants was slowed down, or participants even responded incorrectly by naming the color word (green) instead of the color of the word (red).
The Stroop task supports Posner and Snyder's (1975) ...