Trick of Colors? or Trick of Words?
- The Stroop Effect -
Please look at the chart below and say the COLOR (Not the word).
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BLACK RED GREEN
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WHITE YELLOW BLUE
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ORANGE GREEN RED
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GRAY PURPLE YELLOW
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BLUE RED BLACK
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Did you find it more difficult than you expected? Well, you have just experienced "interference" which is a conflict between the right side and left side of your brain. Your right side tries to say the color, but your left side insists on reading the word. This is called the "Stroop Effect".