The Stroop Effect Experiment The Stroop effect shows how selective attention is utilized to attend to a task that requires the subject to selectively focus on one of several different stimuli. Stroop’s findings can be seen in parts of everyday life, such as a mother being able to hear her own child’s cry over many other children in the same room. The Stroop experiment tests the ability to name the ink color of …showed first 75 words of 646 total…

…showed last 75 words of 646 total…determined by the demands of the user’s tasks. Such as, driving a car while talking on a cell phone. There are trade-offs in attention requirements, some automatic in nature, others need deliberate focus to accomplish. An argument could be made for an additional experiment by changing the font size, or by using color overlays that would slightly fade the ink color in varying degrees to see if the Stroop theory could still be validated.