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Stroop tests are useful for screening people for cognitive deficiency caused by liver disease, called hepatic encephalopathy. Stroop like tasks have also been used to investigate people's likelihood to overcome alcoholism, based on how well they are at offsetting inhibition, a part of cognitive control that falls within executive functioning. I'm due to publish a paper on a Stroop-like task I've utilised to see if more competitive people are better at inhibiting their responses, meaning they perform better at Stroop-like tests
@@juliaconnell the liver is responsible for the breaking down of toxins that would otherwise end up in your blood stream. In liver complications such as cirrhosis, the liver's ability to do this is significantly impaired, meaning these toxins can end up in your blood stream and affect your brain function. If brain function is impaired, the patient is said to have hepatic encephalopathy.
I've always found the stroop task surprisingly easy, and this video made me realise it's probably the fact I have a combination of both schizophrenia and dyslexia - so if I'm not actively concentrating on trying to read words look more like abstract shapes and squiggles to me than written language. It's always weird learning ways my experiences are different from the average person through my neurodivergence '3'
About hypnosis.. That would be a great subject for a video! Explaining how it works, what its potentials are and why we hear so little about it, even though it is clearly quite amazing! Edit: I see you agree that it is an amazing subject and that you've made a video about 2 years ago haha. My bad!
I think you should have mentioned that a large portion of the Stroop effect is due to a methodological caveat: number of congruent trials is much smaller than the number of incongruent trials, resulting with better predictability of the color using the word. See Dishon-Berkovits & Algom (2000) and Schmidt & Besner (2008)
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I had very weird results: it consistently takes me longer to answer when it's congruent. As if my brain is looking for a trick. But English is my second language so this might be the reason.
you are one of the few I have encounted who describes similar... I'm a native English speaker. My congruent delay doesn't seem to vary much , My incongruent delay varies above and below my result can be either. why? seems to be "headspace"... when "on edge" .. if returns as stroop it returns in accord keeping with 80% of what stroop himself found, faster to answer when congruent. when "feeling chilled", "in the swing of it", "test not important" and similar... faster to answer when incongruent. kind of awkward to say, but it could be as simple as confidence, and have faster results regardless of it they are incongruent, or congruent.
I think it makes sense that our brain would process multiple thread of information, but not in an isolated manner until they reach a conclusion and then one process that is faster overpowering the others. I think the Brain really compares the processes for their information content at every step of the way. In congruent tasks, where there is no contradiction, the information is shunted to a conclusion quickly, but incongruency leads to a neuronal court case in the PFC and a decision needs to be made on the relevance of each piece of information to determine the correct state. Some information pipelines might get priority processing and override everything else with speed to avoid injury or even death when danger is detected, but when the other processing lanes catch up, you need to justify yourself to yourself and maybe make an adjustment to our processing priorities for the next time you find yourself in a similar situation (which would also explain regret, to some degree, and link it to learning)
I tried it on the faculty.washington.edu site and it took me 12.652 seconds to do the control and 18.372 seconds to complete the test. Honestly, it's easier if you don't look directly at each word, but slightly off to the right. I think it would be harder if you let yourself look left to right, because your brain will naturally read it. Not looking at the first letters would help you beat the test. It's also harder when there are more colours. Ones that incorporate purple, grey, brown, pink, etc on top of yellow, blue, green, orange etc are more difficult.
I have dyslexia and tetrachromacy, normal words already look like gibberish and because I see a wider range of colours than most I spend a lot of time thinking about and classifying/naming colours. I ace Stroop tests every time.
there's party card game that plays with this. F**K: the game. if the word on the card is a colour but in black text you say the colour of the background. but if the word is written in colour you say the colour of the word. if its the word red written in blue on a yellow background you say blue. then there's extra rules, if its a swear word you say that word regardless of the first 2 rules. but if its the F word you avoid saying that at all and apply the first 2 rules instead. perfectly designed for drunk and lower impulse controls.
I knew a dyslect who performed the Stroop test completely oppositely: she could say the colours without any problems, but struggled with reading the words out loud.
What about if you take off your glasses or contact lenses making the words of the language you’re fluent in blurry thus making it easier for the correct cognitive actions to come into play?
Wow!!! Great delivery boet. You simplified a very complicated topic without dumming it down. I'm a Statistical and Data Analyst Consultant with virtually zero % Psychology pre-knowledge and this has been very helpful. Could you perhaps create a video on Emotional Stroop Tests and compare its similarities and differences with the Stroop Test (i.e the Standard Stroop Test that you have explained in this video above)? I thank you in advance :)
Was able to defeat it by working in double reverse. Focus right to left on all presentations and speaking the color then word. (You could them consciously say one or the other as required by the test) This resulted in consistent, rapid results for identifying the ink color and the word.
Anyone else do Stroop tests for eye therapy? In middle school I needed physical therapy for my eyes (yes, it’s a thing) and I had to do the Stroop test over and over again. I think it was to better link my cognition with my sight. (I had trouble processing written information.)
Well I must be super powered. I nailed this task with no hesitation or error the first time ever seeing it in front of my whole psych class. And again for a fellow student researching the phenomenon.
I presume that dyslexia will also help with the Stroop test when you just have to say the color, because you don't process the word as fast and automatically as non-dyslexics.
I remember doing this test as a brain game on Nintendo as a little kid and just going cross eyed so i could only see the color and not read the word, i would have made a good spy.
I'm legally blind so I just have to take off my glasses and then I can't read but can see the colour . Never thought I'd find the day that being legally blind is an advatange
I think it would be interesting to try the Stroop with a nonlinguistic output, like buttons of different colors, that you match and see if cutting out the need to formulate the colors into words reduces the error level. Like, people should be quick at color matching, just not at listing off names for colors.
I've had a go at Stroop gender identity tests. I don't know how reliable they are? Pretty much any gender identity test I've ever had a go on usually comes back as female. The idea of using the stroop test approach - much like the reason it was used for detecting russian agents - was that those taking the test would be able to answer faster to questions regarding gender that they could relate to if they were congruent with their own gender identity. It seems hypnosis can be used to ignore pain.
Thanks for this video! I wish you wouldn't use that clickbait name for it though. It definitely can be beat - many do. I actually take this test regularly, among other cognitive tests, and I regularly do pretty well on it =) I learned to unfocus my eyes during the incongruent parts, so I'm just paying attention to a haze of color. It takes a little practice, but it works =)
I GET STROOPED BY SWINGING GLASS DOORS. In my country, there was a trend a few decades back to have the "push" or "pull" information on glass doors in wrought iron. Rather than have a sign, you have a cutout of the word. And usually it's only on one side, since you can see it through the door. And I do. I read push backwards on the other side of the door and... push. It's not a trend anymore. I'm sure it has something to do with people like me. It really makes it a paradoxical Norman Door for me.
garantiertnicht oh it certainly is, not in the sense most people perceive it as (notably you wouldn’t do something against your moral code when hypnotized) I think there’s been a video on it on one of the sci show channels
I have a trick for passing this test with flying colors (he he). Just cross your eyes a little so the words become blurry. Then all you can see are blobs of color and presto. Stroop test master.
So what about the 1/5th of cases where a *reverse * stroop effect can be measured... such get filtered out of data, because well it's incongruent with how test is supposed to work. Look up the Duncan principle etc
I wonder if this is similar to something that happens with people that have synesthesia. Some people have colors for letters and numbers. In a book about it, the main character visits a page that’s all about synesthesia, but she notices there’s no colored words. The website explains that this is because some people find it frustrating if the colors of the letters/words in the text don’t match *their* colors for the letters and words.
I remember having to do this test at school when I was 8ish. I don't really know why, but now I'm guessing because I was slow learning how to read and they probably wanted to know how I was doing.
My psych professor chose me and a foreign student for the Stroop test example. Neither of us were tripped up by it. That makes sense for the foreign student but I'm not sure why it doesn't work on me.
As a kid I used to have this test as a game on my Nintendo DS. One of my favorite memories is my dad yelling repeatedly at the screen (word black written in red) "black ... Black ... BLACK ... BLLLAAACK ... oh whait it's red" it was so funny my mum and I couldn't stop laughing forever 😆
Lol the stoop test is actually pretty easy when it's just words and color, and its funny you mention people mastering the task by undergoing suggestion that the words they're looking at are complete gibberish. That's always how I beat it in minigames. I just kind of blur my eyes and go into a something similar to an open-eye meditation mode where my eyes blur from staring at one spot while forcing myself to think specifically of the rules while chanting over and over in my mind "The words are gibberish, they mean nothing. There are no words, only concepts mached to sounds in an agreeance between two people". Coincidentally, I suspect this would make learning another laguage easier if it were more ingrained in a person's mind while learning new words. I'm going to go try with Hebrew,Greek, and Aramaic I think.
We had done this "say word's color" game at a Chinese lesson. Since I didn't properly learn and couldn't read the hieroglyphs well the only thing I needed to do is remember how was the color called in Chinese.
Is it not a common trait to easily un-focus your eyes to blur out words? Kind of like how your eyes feel when you use those visual “magic eye” books? I can easily blur out words so I can still clearly see color but I wouldn’t be able to read the words unless I re-focus my eyes.
I would be interested to find out if individuals with certain brain injuries that impair their recognise of words would fair better at the stroop test and possibly if this could help us learn more about what's going on.
Currently, the link to the box in the description is an unknown page 💕 Added: I tried just ‘googling’ it but I ended up with the same result. I hope it’s fixed soon!
Does dsylexia have anything to do with the test? Cuz ive seen this test before and have a pretty easy time just naming off the colors not the words! Perhaps cuz reading words takes more effort for me?
I'd love if you could do a video on hypnosis! I'm rather susceptible personally. It was a great way for one of my therapists to get my muscular tension to go away
I vaguely remember doing the Stroop test in the past, and when I was supposed to call out the color of the ink, I just unfocused my eyes so I couldn't read the words. 😆
Yeah the stroop test doesn't work on me. I figured out how to get around it by just blurring my vision when asked what colour the words were. My whole class was astonished at how fast I could read the colours.
Impulse control issues making it trickier, and the reliance on executive function, makes me think that how a group of people with ADHD would do on average compared to a group without on the Stroop Task would be interesting. ADHD being mainly a disorder of executive function, and involving a decrease in size of the prefrontal cortex. I might just attempt a shitty little experiment, comparing my response times and amount of correct responses to the task from when I attempt the task while on my medication vs attempted the task on a day when I haven't taken any of my medication.
My older sister wrote a paper on the stroop task when she was in high school, and made all of her friends and family, including me, try it out. I got fairly good at it. So yeah, when I was about 10, I was really good at the stroop task... I wonder if I can still do it? Edit: so... Turns out I can't do it anymore. I'm even worse than I was my first try when I was a kid.
Simple solution(coughcheatcough), but maybe only because my sight is bad. Unfocus your vision from the text, and you can no longer read it. Start listing the colours.
Although I don't know Russian, but I kinda can read the letters, I had some trouble identifying the colours of the Russian text. My brain kept going "read it, read it!"
I've done this test multiple times and I consistently do well. However I'm not sure if the way I do it is considered cheating or not. I don't look directly at the word when asked to name the color, I look just above or below so that the first thing I see is always the color. If I have to name the word then I do look at the word itself. 😬
Hank Red I am on to your games!
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*Me:* Other than trying to sleep at night, clinical depression, bi-polar disorder, ADD, ADHD, confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, tendency towards addiction, liking things that are bad for us, hating things that are good for us...
With a brain like this, who needs enemies?!
Are... are you spying on me?
HoshiSanada I guess we should add paranoia to that list lol.
GET OUT OF MY BRAIN.....
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Nintendo already trained my brain for this one.
Dr Kawashima!
don't forget accuracy learned right away from ducks and clay disks :p ah Nintendo. when you weren't d-bags.
oh, brain age!
@@cherryRedStilettos No the d-baggary was for you sibling to fiddle with the second controller to control the duck
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a.k.a “Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training” in the UK.
Stroop tests are useful for screening people for cognitive deficiency caused by liver disease, called hepatic encephalopathy. Stroop like tasks have also been used to investigate people's likelihood to overcome alcoholism, based on how well they are at offsetting inhibition, a part of cognitive control that falls within executive functioning.
I'm due to publish a paper on a Stroop-like task I've utilised to see if more competitive people are better at inhibiting their responses, meaning they perform better at Stroop-like tests
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sounds interesting Grant - how do you know that the liver is involved rather than some other cognitive deficiency?
@@juliaconnell the liver is responsible for the breaking down of toxins that would otherwise end up in your blood stream. In liver complications such as cirrhosis, the liver's ability to do this is significantly impaired, meaning these toxins can end up in your blood stream and affect your brain function. If brain function is impaired, the patient is said to have hepatic encephalopathy.
I know a trick to this one. When asked to name the color, just make your vision a tad blurry by slightly crossing your eyes so the word isn't clear.
I do the same, it works! But I have to squint a lot so it's hard to deduct what it is, otherwise I just blurt out the word
CHEAT 9999
Also hypnosis apparently works too.
You can imagine you are focusing an object further away to achieve this without hurting your eyes.
Look at the background
I've always found the stroop task surprisingly easy, and this video made me realise it's probably the fact I have a combination of both schizophrenia and dyslexia - so if I'm not actively concentrating on trying to read words look more like abstract shapes and squiggles to me than written language. It's always weird learning ways my experiences are different from the average person through my neurodivergence '3'
Sci show: The Psych Test You Cannot Beat
Dyslexic people: that would be true if it was the other way around.
What color is the word 'Yellow'?
Brain: " This is beyond science."
Me: Obviously, it's yellow.
Person experimenting: But the ink is red.
Me: So what? That's not what you asked.
Are the results different for people with dyslexia since reading isn't as automatic for them?
Yeah I found it really easy and I am dyslexic
I'am dyslexic too and I said the color of the word before the spelled out word in most cases.. But I find it varies on the words.
i propose that dyslexics be alternatively known as stroop experts.
the only stroop i care about is the stroopwafel
The Stroopwafel effect is real
Get to the Albert Hein, then :P
About hypnosis.. That would be a great subject for a video! Explaining how it works, what its potentials are and why we hear so little about it, even though it is clearly quite amazing!
Edit: I see you agree that it is an amazing subject and that you've made a video about 2 years ago haha. My bad!
I think you should have mentioned that a large portion of the Stroop effect is due to a methodological caveat: number of congruent trials is much smaller than the number of incongruent trials, resulting with better predictability of the color using the word. See Dishon-Berkovits & Algom (2000) and Schmidt & Besner (2008)
I'm in love with your whole business/ model and people involved. All the SciShow channels are beyond words, the time and dedication, the passion emits. AND now you have these universe unboxed things? My inside wonderful happy warm fuzzies went nuts. Thank you :)
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I had very weird results: it consistently takes me longer to answer when it's congruent. As if my brain is looking for a trick. But English is my second language so this might be the reason.
I'm the same and english is my first lol
English is my second language too, but this test works exactly as it is supposed to on me, both in Dutch (my first language) and in English.
you are one of the few I have encounted who describes similar...
I'm a native English speaker.
My congruent delay doesn't seem to vary much ,
My incongruent delay varies above and below
my result can be either.
why? seems to be "headspace"...
when "on edge" .. if returns as stroop it returns in accord keeping with 80% of what stroop himself found, faster to answer when congruent.
when "feeling chilled", "in the swing of it", "test not important" and similar... faster to answer when incongruent.
kind of awkward to say, but it could be as simple as confidence, and have faster results regardless of it they are incongruent, or congruent.
"NEWS ALERT: Being drunk makes you bad at lots of things, including impulse control."
This knowledge will change my life!!!
Ha! I'm color blind, they're all purple!
I think it makes sense that our brain would process multiple thread of information, but not in an isolated manner until they reach a conclusion and then one process that is faster overpowering the others. I think the Brain really compares the processes for their information content at every step of the way. In congruent tasks, where there is no contradiction, the information is shunted to a conclusion quickly, but incongruency leads to a neuronal court case in the PFC and a decision needs to be made on the relevance of each piece of information to determine the correct state. Some information pipelines might get priority processing and override everything else with speed to avoid injury or even death when danger is detected, but when the other processing lanes catch up, you need to justify yourself to yourself and maybe make an adjustment to our processing priorities for the next time you find yourself in a similar situation (which would also explain regret, to some degree, and link it to learning)
Dude I’ve looked for you so much under crash course😭 thank God I found you again!!!! You’re the reason I enjoy tedious psychology learning
being colorblind adds a whole other layer to this
Always struggled with it, having ADHD. Explains a lot that I also have poor impulse control
That sounds like the next internet challenge to me.
"Dude! I just did the Stroop Challenge!"
Free Stroop here www2.b3ta.com/clickthecolour/
I just need this test to be given in color blind friendly colors and I'll ace it. It's not my fault blue and purple look similar
I usually just squint my eyes so I cannot read the word, but can still see its colour. Take that brain!
i immediately thought to do this...
I tried it on the faculty.washington.edu site and it took me 12.652 seconds to do the control and 18.372 seconds to complete the test. Honestly, it's easier if you don't look directly at each word, but slightly off to the right. I think it would be harder if you let yourself look left to right, because your brain will naturally read it. Not looking at the first letters would help you beat the test. It's also harder when there are more colours. Ones that incorporate purple, grey, brown, pink, etc on top of yellow, blue, green, orange etc are more difficult.
I have dyslexia and adhd and I am a pro at the stroop test.... 99% on average.... only one I have difficulty is a red colered blue.
I have dyslexia and tetrachromacy, normal words already look like gibberish and because I see a wider range of colours than most I spend a lot of time thinking about and classifying/naming colours. I ace Stroop tests every time.
I remember having to do that test a few times, along with a bunch of other tests.
Thank you so much for this video!!
there's party card game that plays with this. F**K: the game. if the word on the card is a colour but in black text you say the colour of the background. but if the word is written in colour you say the colour of the word. if its the word red written in blue on a yellow background you say blue. then there's extra rules, if its a swear word you say that word regardless of the first 2 rules. but if its the F word you avoid saying that at all and apply the first 2 rules instead. perfectly designed for drunk and lower impulse controls.
Jesus that sounds amazing. And pretty hard even for sober players. Loved it.
7:43 Did he just say "your favorite kid"? LOL
I knew a dyslect who performed the Stroop test completely oppositely: she could say the colours without any problems, but struggled with reading the words out loud.
Dyslexics and illiterates and other people that have certain types of learning difficulties should do well in this test.
Hank: You can't read the word Green and say Red
Me: Watch me
I've always been really good at passing the Stroop task. I just unfocus my eyes.
What about if you take off your glasses or contact lenses making the words of the language you’re fluent in blurry thus making it easier for the correct cognitive actions to come into play?
Don't think I didn't catch that reference to Red Green, the Dog. I caught it.
Wow, nice catch!
i didnt even know they were referencing anything, considering ive never heard of "red green dog"
@@crappyaccount Look up Red Green Vlogbrothers and you'll find the whole trilogy.
I love the idea of the boxes. I hope they're still around when the only kid in my life gets a lil older!
Wow!!! Great delivery boet. You simplified a very complicated topic without dumming it down. I'm a Statistical and Data Analyst Consultant with virtually zero % Psychology pre-knowledge and this has been very helpful. Could you perhaps create a video on Emotional Stroop Tests and compare its similarities and differences with the Stroop Test (i.e the Standard Stroop Test that you have explained in this video above)? I thank you in advance :)
1:36 French being my first language but being pretty good at english, I read the thumbnails words' colours in english.
Was able to defeat it by working in double reverse. Focus right to left on all presentations and speaking the color then word. (You could them consciously say one or the other as required by the test) This resulted in consistent, rapid results for identifying the ink color and the word.
*The stroop test is such a boring, basic and yet crazily interesting experiments*
It's crazy how many variants of the stroop task exist.
How does the Stroop effect work in people or children that are just learning to read? Is the pathway for reading still as strong?
Anyone else do Stroop tests for eye therapy? In middle school I needed physical therapy for my eyes (yes, it’s a thing) and I had to do the Stroop test over and over again. I think it was to better link my cognition with my sight. (I had trouble processing written information.)
Well I must be super powered. I nailed this task with no hesitation or error the first time ever seeing it in front of my whole psych class. And again for a fellow student researching the phenomenon.
Haha! I have significant brain damage due to multiple untreated concussions, and the Stroop test is easy for me. I should be a spy, I guess.
I presume that dyslexia will also help with the Stroop test when you just have to say the color, because you don't process the word as fast and automatically as non-dyslexics.
Impulse control? What impulse control?
*-ADHD 2019*
Limey ME HA
I remember doing this test as a brain game on Nintendo as a little kid and just going cross eyed so i could only see the color and not read the word, i would have made a good spy.
The Sci Show section of Creative Kids is not working, it says "404 page not found"
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Same for me
Passion the video content-- extremely user friendly and whole lots to see!
I need the sci show box. Man that looks awesome. Do you ship to New Zealand?
Thank you for your lecture, it really helps me alot
Hah, I read about that yesterday in Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy!
Lol tried to close my eyes and imagine Chade doing this video, didn't work. And Night Eyes is colorblind so he won't be any help!
I'm legally blind so I just have to take off my glasses and then I can't read but can see the colour . Never thought I'd find the day that being legally blind is an advatange
Science: Why it matters.
An often overlooked concept.
I think it would be interesting to try the Stroop with a nonlinguistic output, like buttons of different colors, that you match and see if cutting out the need to formulate the colors into words reduces the error level. Like, people should be quick at color matching, just not at listing off names for colors.
how about elaborating on generative models and predictions?
I've had a go at Stroop gender identity tests. I don't know how reliable they are? Pretty much any gender identity test I've ever had a go on usually comes back as female. The idea of using the stroop test approach - much like the reason it was used for detecting russian agents - was that those taking the test would be able to answer faster to questions regarding gender that they could relate to if they were congruent with their own gender identity. It seems hypnosis can be used to ignore pain.
Thanks for this video! I wish you wouldn't use that clickbait name for it though. It definitely can be beat - many do. I actually take this test regularly, among other cognitive tests, and I regularly do pretty well on it =) I learned to unfocus my eyes during the incongruent parts, so I'm just paying attention to a haze of color. It takes a little practice, but it works =)
I GET STROOPED BY SWINGING GLASS DOORS.
In my country, there was a trend a few decades back to have the "push" or "pull" information on glass doors in wrought iron. Rather than have a sign, you have a cutout of the word. And usually it's only on one side, since you can see it through the door.
And I do. I read push backwards on the other side of the door and... push.
It's not a trend anymore. I'm sure it has something to do with people like me. It really makes it a paradoxical Norman Door for me.
Test you cannot beat...6:10, if you are hypnotized...So, you can beat it
I'm more surprised that hypnosis is a real scientific thing
garantiertnicht oh it certainly is, not in the sense most people perceive it as (notably you wouldn’t do something against your moral code when hypnotized) I think there’s been a video on it on one of the sci show channels
An episode on what real-life hypnosis can and can't do would be excellent.
I have a trick for passing this test with flying colors (he he). Just cross your eyes a little so the words become blurry. Then all you can see are blobs of color and presto. Stroop test master.
So what about the 1/5th of cases where a *reverse * stroop effect can be measured... such get filtered out of data, because well it's incongruent with how test is supposed to work. Look up the Duncan principle etc
I just got my psych bachelor's. I'm also in a band and I asked if we could name our first ep after this phenomena. It's called Stroop Effect (the ep)
I wonder if this is similar to something that happens with people that have synesthesia. Some people have colors for letters and numbers. In a book about it, the main character visits a page that’s all about synesthesia, but she notices there’s no colored words. The website explains that this is because some people find it frustrating if the colors of the letters/words in the text don’t match *their* colors for the letters and words.
I remember having to do this test at school when I was 8ish. I don't really know why, but now I'm guessing because I was slow learning how to read and they probably wanted to know how I was doing.
My psych professor chose me and a foreign student for the Stroop test example. Neither of us were tripped up by it. That makes sense for the foreign student but I'm not sure why it doesn't work on me.
I already beat the thumbnail.
As a kid I used to have this test as a game on my Nintendo DS. One of my favorite memories is my dad yelling repeatedly at the screen (word black written in red) "black ... Black ... BLACK ... BLLLAAACK ... oh whait it's red" it was so funny my mum and I couldn't stop laughing forever 😆
Lol the stoop test is actually pretty easy when it's just words and color, and its funny you mention people mastering the task by undergoing suggestion that the words they're looking at are complete gibberish. That's always how I beat it in minigames. I just kind of blur my eyes and go into a something similar to an open-eye meditation mode where my eyes blur from staring at one spot while forcing myself to think specifically of the rules while chanting over and over in my mind "The words are gibberish, they mean nothing. There are no words, only concepts mached to sounds in an agreeance between two people".
Coincidentally, I suspect this would make learning another laguage easier if it were more ingrained in a person's mind while learning new words. I'm going to go try with Hebrew,Greek, and Aramaic I think.
We had done this "say word's color" game at a Chinese lesson. Since I didn't properly learn and couldn't read the hieroglyphs well the only thing I needed to do is remember how was the color called in Chinese.
Is it not a common trait to easily un-focus your eyes to blur out words? Kind of like how your eyes feel when you use those visual “magic eye” books? I can easily blur out words so I can still clearly see color but I wouldn’t be able to read the words unless I re-focus my eyes.
*That's cheating though*
Thanks a lot.😊
There’s an app called Click Quick on the App Store that turned this into a game. It’s pretty hard not gonna lie lol
I would be interested to find out if individuals with certain brain injuries that impair their recognise of words would fair better at the stroop test and possibly if this could help us learn more about what's going on.
Currently, the link to the box in the description is an unknown page 💕
Added: I tried just ‘googling’ it but I ended up with the same result. I hope it’s fixed soon!
Does dsylexia have anything to do with the test? Cuz ive seen this test before and have a pretty easy time just naming off the colors not the words! Perhaps cuz reading words takes more effort for me?
So very interesting!!
I was looking for these for weeks. I started thinking they started selling them.
I'd love if you could do a video on hypnosis! I'm rather susceptible personally. It was a great way for one of my therapists to get my muscular tension to go away
Me:shows this video to my younger siblings to see if they're russian spies
Younger siblings:who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science
One way to hack this effect is to focus past the word so that it is blurry, and the color of the word becomes more obvious
English is not my first language, so i have no problem to distingue the word from the colors.
At least in english , hahahahahahaha
I vaguely remember doing the Stroop test in the past, and when I was supposed to call out the color of the ink, I just unfocused my eyes so I couldn't read the words. 😆
Yeah the stroop test doesn't work on me. I figured out how to get around it by just blurring my vision when asked what colour the words were. My whole class was astonished at how fast I could read the colours.
Impulse control issues making it trickier, and the reliance on executive function, makes me think that how a group of people with ADHD would do on average compared to a group without on the Stroop Task would be interesting. ADHD being mainly a disorder of executive function, and involving a decrease in size of the prefrontal cortex. I might just attempt a shitty little experiment, comparing my response times and amount of correct responses to the task from when I attempt the task while on my medication vs attempted the task on a day when I haven't taken any of my medication.
My learning disorder makes the Stroop test easy lol
6:10 what?! Hypothesis is a thing?!!!
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My older sister wrote a paper on the stroop task when she was in high school, and made all of her friends and family, including me, try it out. I got fairly good at it. So yeah, when I was about 10, I was really good at the stroop task... I wonder if I can still do it?
Edit: so... Turns out I can't do it anymore. I'm even worse than I was my first try when I was a kid.
Maybe that's because you got better at reading
Simple solution(coughcheatcough), but maybe only because my sight is bad. Unfocus your vision from the text, and you can no longer read it. Start listing the colours.
I had trouble even reading the words for some reason.
im just wondering if the skills from doing the stroop test transfer to other tasks in life
I just squint and go slightly crosseyed so I can't read the word at all, and then stating the colors is easy.
Although I don't know Russian, but I kinda can read the letters, I had some trouble identifying the colours of the Russian text. My brain kept going "read it, read it!"
For Hank everything is kinda green :D
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how does this work on people with synestesia and other sensory issues?
I have colour grapheme synesthesia so any coloured text is like this.
My brain says "this test is stupid, crave chocolate! "
I have the opposite problem where I say the color, instead of reading the word. XD (I’m dyslexic)
lekiscool me too! i’m also dyslexic and do this :p
I've done this test multiple times and I consistently do well. However I'm not sure if the way I do it is considered cheating or not. I don't look directly at the word when asked to name the color, I look just above or below so that the first thing I see is always the color. If I have to name the word then I do look at the word itself. 😬