During the Stroop Test, Subjects

question 46

Multiple Choice

During the Stroop test, subjects

• A) experience interference from the physical characteristics of a word, such as the color in which it is written, as they attempt to read the word out loud.
• B) are asked to identify a visually presented word while another word is simultaneously presented auditorily.
• C) are asked to repeat out loud what they hear through head phones as soon as they hear it.
• D) experience interference from the semantic characteristics of words as they attempt to identify their physical characteristics, such as color.

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