n experiment that replicates the Stroop effect, to test how our controlled and automatic processes work simultaneously.

Abstract

The rationale for this experiment is to retest the Stroop effect and to further prove that control and automatic processing work together. Theorist who were interested in studying attention suggested that we could not attend to all information coming in from our senses. Therefore adopted a theory on controlled processing and automatic processing. To test this theory Stroop (1935) developed the Stroop effect experiment which got participants to read the colour on the ink from a list of colour words. This experiment is replicated so the instead of the words being a name of a colour it was colour related words, this was then compared to a 2nd condition which was colour neutral words. From the experiment carried out the results showed that a statistically significant time was taken to read the colour related words to the colour-neutral words.

Introduction

Attention- a proc…(short extract)