Introduction
The phenomenon of having longer time to react to the not matching words and word colors is known as the Stroop Effect. It is used by professors of psychology to demonstrate the failure of choice of the selective attention.
Discussion
A study was carried out in 1935 by J.R. Stroop, the main aim of which was to test the effects of automaticity, on reading to be specific. Reading was chosen due to being more automatic and quicker than naming colors, moreover color naming can suffer from involuntary reading, while as reading is not affected by conflicting print colors. The experiment ...