When You Try the Stroop Task, You Need to Say

question 33

Multiple Choice

When you try the Stroop task, you need to say the name of the colors and inhibit your automatic tendency to read the words. This kind of search typically activates

• A) your executive attention network.
• B) your orienting attention network.
• C) your saccadic eye movements.
• D) your parietal lobe.

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Definitions:

Need For Cognition

Differences between people in their need to think about things critically and analytically.

Critically And Analytically

The process of examining issues, ideas, or objects in a detailed and logical manner, often to evaluate merits and faults or understand deeper meanings.

Persuadability

The susceptibility of an individual to change their beliefs, attitude, or behavior in response to an argument or a message.

Terror Management Theory

A psychological concept suggesting that much of human behavior is motivated by an underlying fear of mortality and the desire to achieve a sense of permanence.