The Stroop Effect Is Related to Selective Attention Because

question 53

Multiple Choice

The Stroop effect is related to selective attention because

• A) people are required to pay selective attention to the shape of the object, rather than its meaning.
• B) people are required to pay selective attention to the color of the stimulus, rather than the name of the stimulus.
• C) the stimuli elicit selective parallel distributed processing.
• D) attention involves only bottom-up processing.

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