PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Stroop Effect, Backward Masking
19 Nov 2012
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They shadow one of messages by repeating it. People must filter out information whey did not want to attend one stage. Selective looking of info-procession might be a filter: people are able to attend to either sequence easily, saw only the attended to sequence and not distracted by the other. When you try to name the colors, it is as if you are constantly being distracted by the tendency to read the names: the tendency to read the names interferes with the attempt to name the colors. A typical stroop experiment compares performance in an incongruent condition (red) with a control condition (xxx: the incongruent condition takes more time than the control. Requires participant to inhibit the reading of the color words in order to name the color. Illustrates controlled versus automatic processes: automatic is autonomous runs itself without necessity of paying attention.
