Body Tricks: Stroop Test - how did you do?
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The Stroop test; here's what you do: Say aloud the ink colour that each word is written in. Do you find yourself confusing the word with the colour it is written in? Time yourself and let us know how quickly you did it here.
Today in our Body Tricks series, Marty Jopson's looked at something called The Stroop Test.
View and download The Stroop Test here.
Have a go, try it on your friends and family and see who can do it the quickest!
More info
This Stroop Test examines how the brain processes language and colour and was named after John Ridley Stroop, a psychologist who published this concept in 1935.
Marty took a card with the names of colours printed upon it in other different ink e.g. the word green is printed in yellow. Then he asked participants to tell him the ink colours rather than read the actual word printed.
We find this difficult because the two pieces of information compete and the word usually wins over the colour as reading is such an inbuilt instinct.
How fast can you do it?
We had a go in The One Show office and the fastest time was from Ed the researcher, aged 28, who completed the test correctly in 13 seconds straight. The slowest time was Gareth our technical manager, 47, who finished it in 25 seconds. How did you compare?
How did your brain cope with the Stroop Test? Tell us how you got on? Time yourself and tell us how quickly you managed to read the whole sheet correctly.
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