English Explanatory Dictionary

Stroop effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).

Word forms

Stroop effect Stroop effects

Etymology

After John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935.

Related words

Stroop test
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