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How Helpful has the Stroop Method Been in Exploring the Relations Between Emotional and Cognitive Processes?
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How Helpful has the Stroop Method Been in Exploring the Relations Between Emotional and Cognitive Processes? The Stroop task has been widely employed for almost 70 years to aid the study of human cognitive processes. More specifically it focuses on attentional bias. Attentional bias refers to performance on a dependant variable suffering as a result of allocation of attention to alternative, more salient aspects of the stimulus array (Williams et al, 1997). In the original design of the 'Stroop Task' (Stroop, 1935) participants were presented with stimuli printed in coloured ink, and were required to name the colour of the ink while ignoring the stimuli itself. The stimuli would either be meaningless (such as a row of Xs) or be the name of a colour (not that of the ink used to display it). It is a common result that the latter stimuli take longer for ink colour naming...
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