In psychology, the Stroop effect is a delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli, most famously demonstrated when a person is shown a color word printed in a mismatched ink, such as the word red printed in blue, and asked to name the ink color rather than read the word. Because the brain automatically reads the word, that reading interferes with the separate task of identifying the ink color, producing slower responses and more errors, and the effect has become one of the most studied demonstrations of how the mind handles conflicting information.
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountIn a color-word naming task, an incongruent color name printed in a differently colored font delays reaction time and increases errors compared with a congruent or neutral stimulus. 1 First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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The Stroop Effect Experiments established the naming-interference finding this phenomenon is named for.
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1. Stroop Effect (Wikipedia)
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In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between neutral and incongruent stimuli.
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The effect is named after John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935.
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In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between neutral and incongruent stimuli.
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