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Is color naming a controlled process or an automatic process?Experiment
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Introduction: Research Question: Is color naming a controlled process or an automatic process? When a participant is presented with the names of different colors, corresponding with the ink of the color, it is easy for the participant to read the words or name the color of the print. In such tasks called Stroop tasks, the participant can be shown the name of the color, filled with ink that conflicts the name of the color. For example, the word Blue is filled with red ink. The stroop effect tests whether this process of reading words and naming colors interfere with each other. This can be tested by timing the participants, how long it takes them to read the words or naming the colors. The basic stroop effect found that when such conflict of color and words is presented, the background color of the word is usually ignored. In other words, participants tend...
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