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The Stroop EffectColin M. MacLeod*Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, CanadaSynonymsColor-word interference; Stroop interferenceDefinitionThe Stroop Effect is one of the best known phenomena in all of cognitive science and indeed inpsychology more broadly. It is also one of the most long standing, having been reported by John RidleyStroop in the published version of his dissertation in 1935 [1]. In its basic form, the task is to name thecolor in which a word is printed, ignoring the word itself. When the word is a color word printed in amismatched ink color, this is very difficult to do and results in slow, error-prone responding. To illustrate,considerGREEN: To say red to the ink color is difficult relative to a variety of comparison or controlconditions such as naming the color ofXXXXXor the wordTABLEor even the cost in the mismatch condition usually referred to as the incongruent condition relativeto the controls is called the Stroop Effect or Stroop interference.
The Stroop Effect Colin M. MacLeod* Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada Synonyms Color-word interference; Stroop interference
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