The Stroop Effect Analytical Essay by Top Papers

This is the introduction to a lab report designed to duplicate J. R. Stroops classic Word-Color Task. Using two references, J.R. Stroops' seminal 1938 paper "Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions" and C. M. Macleod's "Half a century of research on the Stroop Effect" (1991), this introduction describes and discusses the experiment which has become a standard psychological diagnostic tool. The writer explains that Stroops' Word-Color Task is designed to measure the difference in the amount of time it takes a subject to read words printed in black ink versus the time it takes the same subject to read the color words printed in incongruent colors. This paper briefly describes the three experiments used by Stroop in his 1938 study, as well a brief discussion of his conclusions.