Human Sciences

The Stroop Effect

The desired outcome of the experiment was to proove that humans tend to focous on the details like the colors or shapes things are done with.

John troop performed an experiment that tested the reaction time of a person to read different sets of words. He gave sets of words to different people that were names of colors and one of the set of words had colored ink that did not conquer with the word that was being read. He timed the same person on the different tasks and saw that the words that were colored with the same color as what the word spell were read much faster than the words that had their color changed.

The outcome was that every human notices the colors and shape things are made of first and then they notice what their meaning is. In this case they had trouble saying what the word spelled because they first noticed the olor in which the word was spelled in.