The Stroop Effect Experiment

PROCEDURE
The sampling technique used was convenience sampling where the participants were approached and spoken to on one on one basis in a welcoming manner and were questioned if they would agree to participate in the experiment. In case they agreed to participate, the standardized instruction for briefing were recited and read out to each and every participant after which the investigators questioned them if they would agree to continue or would want to withdraw or if they had any other questions.
Henceforth, the investigator then thanked and acknowledged the participant for agreeing to sing the informed consent from after which the participant was escorted to s silent classroom, in order to extraneous or irrelevant variables and then each

This clearly denotes that there is a significant difference between automatic and controlled processing. The mean difference between the time taken (seconds) between the two presentations was 5.33 seconds, which is a very big difference. Furthermore, the scores that arose were pretty near to the mean and the standard deviation was small. Using these results, we could state that Stroop’s (1935) theory could be supported. Also, Morton and Chambers (1973) proposed the speed-processing model, which said that people are capable of reading words faster than naming colors.
It signifies that a person’s mind allows particular stimuli before allowing others. This is the reason why, when the given word is colored in the ink of another color, it is tougher for the brain to divert attention towards stating the color of the ink, as the process (automatic) of reading intrudes and thus, there is a clash between the two dimensions.
Yet, in congruency, this is not the case. Thus, this supposition delivers a clear and likely reason for the results that were

In conclusion, a person’s automaticity to read comes in the way of him/her to come colors of the word specially when it comes to incongruent words which thus take longer time in comparison to congruent words.

REFERENCES
• Morton and Chambers (1973) In Gross, “Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour”, p. 387-390. 

• Schneider & Shiffrin (1977). Automatic vs. controlled processing. In Gross, “Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour”, p. 193. 

• Stroop (1935). The Stroop Effect.
In “Essential Practical Psychology”, pp. 108-109. 

• J. Ridley Stroop (1935) Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. (Electronical version) In “Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, pp. 643-662. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Stroop/ Retrieved: February 2nd, 2005 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 

• * Gross, Richard
“Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour” (4th edition) Hodder & Stoughton, London,