Stroop Effect: Color Wording and Cognitive Interference

Since its founding, the ability to adapt to behavior and the conditions that influence it were central areas of psychologist's research. When learning behavior, they become an automated process. The automated process can be described as actions that are not particularly motivated by avoiding mistakes, as people do not need to consciously consider the next information that is needed. Automated processes occur with less effort and errors, and controlled processes need to be carried out with people's attention.

The effect of "interference" was investigated in the improved Stroop experiment. This paper studies the response time to complete the change of the stroke test; it determines whether the automatic cognitive process associated with reading interferes with the controlled process associated with the color naming task. We found that the color of the word list related to color is slower than the use of the neutral word. This indicates that interference will occur during the interaction between the automatic cognitive process and the controlled cognitive process. These findings are consistent with previous empirical studies which show that performance decreases as multiple tasks are completed.

The stroop interference effect (hereinafter referred to as the Stroop effect) means delayed naming of color words. In this exam, the stroop effect was statistically significant, but it was not fully explained. Two theories are trying to explain this effect. The speed of processing theory suggests that interference occurs when words are read faster than color. Selective attention theory thinks that color naming requires attention rather than reading words. As a measure of processing speed, the stroke test is widely used for selective attention, automation, suppression process, and execution control research (for an overview, see Dyer, 1973; MacLeod, 1991). The robustness of this test is "gold standard" for attention measurement (MacLeod, 1991, 1992). The Stroop test is also used as a diagnostic tool in clinical practice and research to help identify patients with brain injury (Golden, 1976).

In interfering theory studies, the most commonly used procedure is similar to Stroop's second experiment. In this experiment, non-conforming words of the subject and named colors of the pictures were tested. The first experiment of stroop study (reading words with colors inconsistent with black) has not been discussed much. In either case, the interference score is expressed as the difference in time taken to read each of the two cards. In addition to naming stimuli, subjects were also asked to classify stimuli. Various characteristics of stimuli, such as ink color and character direction, have been systematically changed. All of these fixes did not eliminate the effects of interference