Talk:Stroop effect

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[edit] Whether or not to link here

An anonymous user posted this link http://forums.krazyletter.com/index.php?act=Arcade&do=play&gameid=106 to the article. While it works, I have doubts on whether or not it really is representative of the Stroop Effect (because it is an arcade game style, where you try to go as far as possible before messing up or running out of time), there's annoying music, and the words spin around, interfering with the automatic recognition of the words. It works, but it's not really Stroop, if you know what I mean. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 22:54, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] effect on non native speakers

I am a Portuguese speaker and I do not "fall in the trap" when the illusion is written in English. Of course I do it when it is written in Portuguese. I think that should be mentioned in the article. Afonso Silva 02:00, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

That the Stroop effect has its greatest effect when the words are presented in the same language as the reader's native language is obvious as the words will have greater semantic impact. If I were to present the words in a language that neither of us know, we would expect zero impact of the word. This applies to all experiements where reading (or avoid trying to read in this case) is part of the test, not just the Stroop Effect, and is a basic assumption of the test, along with, say, ability to read.

I did some research on the effect, and it seems most later researchers pin the effect to (as our article states), the automization of reading: you read things automatically without conscious effort. If English is your second language, you probably have to consciously tell yourself what each word means. And then, the interference from the automization is gone.

Unfortunantely, I can't cite that. I lost access to the psychological database. If anyone is on a college campus, see if you have access to Psychinfo or Medline. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 21:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Do you have a citation for it? I should be able to pull it out of psychINFO Liamdaly620 13:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Possibly worth mentioning that(AFAIK) Americans used Stroop effect to find Soviet spies for precisely this reason (though this would require some serious citation). --Telecart 04:58, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

I need to find the exact citations, but in recent years Stroop and Stroop-like effects have come under a lot of criticism. in Melara & Algom's "Deconstructing Stroop: A tectonic Explanation" they use Tectonic Theory to show that "Stroop is neither robust nor inevitable. Words are not read faster than colours are named." They show a confound in most Stroop methods, where most of the variance can be explained away due to correlation between word and colour and relative dimensional discriminability. When creating a truly random correlation, Stroop Effect evaporates. --Telecart 05:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC)