Stroop Color and Word Test.
Stroop
- What it measures
- Selective attention, processing speed, response inhibition, cognitive flexibility (interference effect)
- Length and format
- 3 conditions (Word, Color, Color-Word); timed. speeded naming/reading with interference (performance), time/error scores (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Adapted into virtually all major languages (color words translated)
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- mixed
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- Reference
- Stroop JR. J Exp Psychol. 1935;18(6):643-662. Golden CJ. Stroop Color and Word Test. Stoelting; 1978.
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