Stroop Test: The Effects of Fear on Reaction
Psychologists have investigated many different studies to improve their understating of the Cognitive processing of information. Information collected from all types of stimuli firstly enters the sensory buffer which has an unlimited capacity. We focused on how stimuli like colors. There are two kinds of processing known as automatic and controlled processing. A theory has been examined in many ways, and psychologists have researched this theory, specifically how stimuli can obstruct with each other and alter the processing of information and how automatic responses or controlled responses can have different effects on how much time a person would need to read out words in different colors.
The Stroop effect (1933) is a simple replication of the study that we conducted. The aim was to examine if the congruence of the color and word or the contradiction of the color and Scripture decreases the reaction time in students from an international school in Europe. The Stroop effect suggests that non-automatic processes like naming colors the words are engraved in, need more time to process the stimuli than common task such as reading a book. This indicates that humans struggle to perform tasks that are not common and usual for them and therefore need more time and attention for functions that they are not familiar with.
The 1933 J. Ridley Stroop aimed to investigate the effect of people's reaction time on words and the naming of colors the words that they were printed in. There were two sets of different visual stimuli that participants were exposed to and were instructed to complete. While the experiment was conducted, participants were inquired to name the colour of the sample words that were present as quickly as possible as well as correct themselves if any errors were made during the task. They would need to turn the sheet over to show that they were finished with their work.
Two separate sets of sheets with the same words (which were different color names) on them were handed over to the participants who needed to be read by the participants. On one of the sheets, we kept the colors and the words the same, so they were matching. However, on the other layer, the words were written in incongruent colors. We used a stopwatch to measure the time it had taken for participants to read out each of the sheets with the words (of either congruent or incongruent colors). When the participant turned the sheet over the time stopped on the stopwatch. The results show that it took the participants longer to name the incongruent colored words than the ones that were matching. At last, it can be said that when stimuli are intruding with each other more time will be needed for the processing of information and therefore automatic processes will need less processing time than non-automatic processes will.
