Stroop Test

It measures hou weel ye can answer the task in front o ye while ettlin tae ignore a strang habit: readin. In 1935, John Ridley Stroop fand that fowk took muckle langer tae name the ink colours o clashin colour wirds (the wird "red" printed in blue, for ensample) than tae name plain patches o colour 1. That slowdown is cried the Stroop effect, an it's yin o the maist studied fyndins in psychology 2.

Researchers uise the Stroop task tae study selective attention an the control o automatic responses 2.

• Yin wird appears at a time (red, green, blue, yellow), printed in yin o the same colours. Answer the ink colour wi the buttons or the keyboard.
• 4 practice wirds wi feedback come first, then 40 countit wirds. In 50% o them the wird matches its ink; in the lave it disna.
• If ye dinna answer within 3 seconds, the wird counts as a miss. Leavin the page ends the run, cause the test is timed.

• Time cost o mismatched wirds: yer average time on mismatched wirds minus yer average on matchin wirds, richt answers alane. This is yer Stroop effect. Smaller means the wird got in yer road less.
• Answered richt: the share o aw countit wirds ye answered richt. Ganger faster uisually costs accuracy, sae keek at baith nummers thegither.

This version shawes yin wird at a time an ye answer wi buttons, like maist computer versions. Stroop's ain version uised printed cairds read oot loud, sae the nummers canna be compared wi his.

Gin ye hae trouble tellin some o thae colours apairt, for ensample red an green, this test canna measure ye fairly. Yer device's colour settins, nicht mode or a dark-mode filter can chynge hou the colours luik an aa. Practisin the task can chynge yer nummers an aa, sae compare wi yer ain earlier runs.

For anither test o stoppin an automatic response, gie the Gaun-or-no-gaun test a try.