Stroop

The woman is taking a standard psychological test known as the Stroop task, in which the participant must identify the names of colors.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

This arbitrary cutoff makes sense when the effect being studied is a large one - for example, when measuring the so-called Stroop effect.

NYT > Home Page By BENEDICT CAREY 2011

This arbitrary cutoff makes sense when the effect being studied is a large one - for example, when measuring the so-called Stroop effect.

NYT > Home Page By BENEDICT CAREY 2011

[5] or the color-word Stroop task [6], they have gathered important findings.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

[5] or the color-word Stroop task [6], they have gathered important findings.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jin Fan et al. 2008

For example, he flashed a bunch of differently colored names of colors (the word “blue” might be in blue, or green, or red, or yellow lettering) and asked his subjects to identify the color (not read the word), a difficult exercise known as a Stroop Task, which measures a person’s ability to manage his or her attention.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

For example, he flashed a bunch of differently colored names of colors (the word “blue” might be in blue, or green, or red, or yellow lettering) and asked his subjects to identify the color (not read the word), a difficult exercise known as a Stroop Task, which measures a person’s ability to manage his or her attention.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

In one experiment, they tested volunteers’ executive acumen using the so-called Stroop test.

When Best Intentions Aren’T Good Enough 2007

As newly reported in Psychological Science by Koch, Holland, Hengstler & Knippenberg, people were better able to resolve interference in laboratory "Stroop" task after stepping backwards, relative to stepping […]

Skeptigator skeptigator 2009

I don't think that the Stroop effect would be invalid if Stroop was high when he came up with it.

The New Yorker on the underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs. - Boing Boing 2009