The Stroop Effect Occurs Because

question 134

Multiple Choice

The Stroop effect occurs because

• A) it is very difficult to see the colors of ink.
• B) people are so used to reading words that they cannot suppress the habit.
• C) people do not take the frequency of things in the population into account.
• D) people's thoughts are related to their categories.

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Definitions:

Z Score

A calculation used to express the difference of a particular value from a group's mean, in terms of how many standard deviations away it is.

T Score

A standardized score that indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its distribution.

Z Scores

Standard scores indicating how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Combinations

The selection of items from a larger set where order does not matter.