they become effortless. Because these behaviors become automatized, humans no longer need to think carefully about every step needed to perform that action. A lot of the times humans do not know how these behaviors are done, instead they just know that it happens. The Stroop test in psychology was a test first described by John Ridley Stroop in the year 1935 in which he studied the interference in serial verbal reactions. The Stroop test analyzes the fact that the ability to ignore task-irrelevant stimuli does not only depend on the load of the task you are trying to accomplish, but that it also depends on how powerful the stimulus is. The Stroop test suggests that often times task-irrelevant stimuli are difficult to ignore. By conducting the
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In essence, the participants took longer to identify the color of the ink when it spelled out a different color. This was because of the incongruent condition that consisted of a mismatch. For instance, participants took a longer time to identify the red ink when the word blue was spelled in red ink. This CogLab was specifically interesting because although the participants were told not to pay attention to the words presented, the word ended up interfering with identifying the color of the ink. It is interesting to observe the effect of the load of the tasks on attention and the human brain. The task of simply ignoring the word names and focusing the attention on the color of the ink seems merely impossible. The results of the CogLab concluded that this often takes place due to the fact that participants have managed to automatize the process of reading and that the color names of the words are always processed fairly quickly. However, identifying the colors is not something that is asked of people often; therefore, it is not something that is automatized which led to a slower response. All in all, the automatic processing of the name of the color ends up interfering with the participant reporting the color of the ink presented to …show more content…
Early Bilinguals, by Laura Sabourin and Santa Venerate, studied the conflicting results of the Stroop effect in reference to language. The experimenters designed an experiment that studied the Stroop effect in reference to the English language and the French language and examined if mixing the two languages generated a different result in the Stroop effect. The experimenters created three separate experiments. One of the experiments focused on the Stroop test with the English language, the second experiment focused on the Stroop test with the French language, and the third experiment conducted the Stroop test with both of the languages mixed together. In total, thirty-one English-French bilinguals participated in the experiment, five of which were women. The results of this experiment reported that inhibition and facilitation are affected, but that these effects do not differ within the languages. However, the mixed language revealed a different overall pattern and this was a result of an interference with the congruency effect and the language. The language aspect of the experiment took into consideration the factors of the age of the immersion of the language and the age of acquisition of the language within the
In essence, the participants took longer to identify the color of the ink when it spelled out a different color. This was because of the incongruent condition that consisted of a mismatch. For instance, participants took a longer time to identify the red ink when the word blue was spelled in red ink. This CogLab was specifically interesting because although the participants were told not to pay attention to the words presented, the word ended up interfering with identifying the color of the ink. It is interesting to observe the effect of the load of the tasks on attention and the human brain. The task of simply ignoring the word names and focusing the attention on the color of the ink seems merely impossible. The results of the CogLab concluded that this often takes place due to the fact that participants have managed to automatize the process of reading and that the color names of the words are always processed fairly quickly. However, identifying the colors is not something that is asked of people often; therefore, it is not something that is automatized which led to a slower response. All in all, the automatic processing of the name of the color ends up interfering with the participant reporting the color of the ink presented to …show more content…
Early Bilinguals, by Laura Sabourin and Santa Venerate, studied the conflicting results of the Stroop effect in reference to language. The experimenters designed an experiment that studied the Stroop effect in reference to the English language and the French language and examined if mixing the two languages generated a different result in the Stroop effect. The experimenters created three separate experiments. One of the experiments focused on the Stroop test with the English language, the second experiment focused on the Stroop test with the French language, and the third experiment conducted the Stroop test with both of the languages mixed together. In total, thirty-one English-French bilinguals participated in the experiment, five of which were women. The results of this experiment reported that inhibition and facilitation are affected, but that these effects do not differ within the languages. However, the mixed language revealed a different overall pattern and this was a result of an interference with the congruency effect and the language. The language aspect of the experiment took into consideration the factors of the age of the immersion of the language and the age of acquisition of the language within the