Stroop Interference and Gender

Paper Summary:

This paper is a research study to assess whether Stroop interference does indeed occur and whether automatic processing does indeed cause reaction times to congruent conditions to be quicker, substantiating Stroop's (1935) findings. The original Stroop test is a psychological test of a person's mental energy, vitality and flexibility and over the years it has been revised and adapted, yet the basic principles remain constant.

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Abstract
Introduction
Method
Materials/Apparatus
Procedure
Results
The Stroop Effect
The Gender Effect
Discussion and Conclusion

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"It is suggested that "cognitive processes become automatic as a result of frequent practice" (Schneider and Shiffrin, 1977) for example reading, writing, bike riding, swimming and driving. Hasher and Zacks (1979), and Posner (1978) defined automatic processes as being attention free, unconscious, and involuntary and the Stroop effect is usually taken as an indication for the automaticity of the reading process, at least in the sense of "automatic" as processing without monitoring. In other words a word that reads the same as the colour in which it is written, should be easier to process than a word in a conflicting colour. Much research into the Stroop effect has ultimately coincided with this view. (Stroop, 1935; Macleod, 1991)"

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