People Performing a Stroop Task Will Generally

question 48

Multiple Choice

People performing a Stroop task will generally

• A) make many errors stating the color name instead of the color the word is printed in.
• B) miss a subtle change in a movie scene unless they focus their attention on it.
• C) categorize a fish as an animal faster than a trout as an animal.
• D) confuse the number of phonemes in a color word with the number of morphemes.

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Definitions:

Minnesota Twin Study

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