Does Anyone Know Anything About The Stroop Test?

Factual Questions
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The Stroop effect.

If you are presented with a color word printed using a color different from the one denoted by the word, you will usually take longer to identify the color the word is printed in.

All the tests I’ve ever seen have you match a miscolored color word to a neutrally colored color word. But the wikipedia article linked above mentions tests which match miscolored color words to color patches. I’d like to see a test of the latter sort. Does anyone know where I can find one?

I’ll also be asking this of a cogscientists at my campus but it’s not unusual for information to find its way to me more quickly through the Dope than through academic contacts. :eek::stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway, I’m looking for info about the way the stroop test can make it more difficult to match colors to colors rather than colors to color words, if you see the distinction I’m after.

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I think the ‘patches’ referred to are used in a control condition. Something like the first image here:

Are you talking about something along the lines of a block of colour with a different colour name next to it? That wouldn’t necessarily demonstrate Stroop effect, as a participant may be able to tune out the name more easily than when it and the colour are combined in the classic condition.

I expect it’d be a little bit Stroopier if you printed the colour name INSIDE a block of colour, but still the ‘automatic process’ of reading would probably be easier to avoid than in the classic experiment.