... than yellow and purple, the interference of the first stimuli is therefore, greater than that of the second. Interference occur in this situation because reading a colour word stimulates a specific representation of colour without effort or awareness. During this type of task, participants were often observed to make ... (1996) and Brown (1915) may have different theories on the same subject, they all, however agreed that colour naming is definitely slower than reading. The participants involved in this research were given three tasks which are the word task, colour blocks task and the St...

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... incongruent trials. Cohen et al. (1990) also proposed a parallel processing model in which the word travels faster due to the greater practice of word reading. Duncan-Johnson and Kopell (1981) found the stroop interference to be a result of the response-competition between ink color and word. A study ... ), the theory claims that things that are practiced and repeated often eventually become automatic processes that require little to no attention. Thus, reading the color-word is automatic as one reads very often, but naming the color is not. This theory explains why in an incongruent ......

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... is captured at a "conceptual level " rather than some perceptual level. It has been surmised that the responses are not based on the speed of processing but rather the capability of the subject. Similar studies have produced this concept that language comprehension is easier than naming the color of ... ink. It appears this is due to the lack of "translation"" in processing the words. This specific study tested the Stroop Effect resulting from reading words typed in various colors. This topic is of interest and importance due to the increase of the use of multi-colored text for communica...

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