Each day we take part in limitless activities that happen naturally. Numerous behaviors can become automatized such as, writing, reading, bicycling, walking, driving, and so forth, comprehending the natural process of the causes of automatic processes gives us insight into how we simultaneously receive and perceive information. The Stroop Paradigm is a classic cognitive psychological experiment performed by John Ridley Stroop (Stroop, 1935) that explores the interference in reading automaticity. In the experiment, participants are asked to read out words of the color ink that words are printed in, with the words also implying a different color. In the condition in which the color of the word and the word are the same participants responded …show more content…
The results of the modified stroop task support that an interference effect conflicts with perceptual processes. Other studies have examined the contributions to which stroop can conflict with visual processes. Object perception is an important element to visual processes such as the way we recognize an object. A Stroop-like paradigm, “A Familiar-Size Stroop Effect: Real-World Size Is an Automatic Property of Object Representation” (Konkle & Olivia, 2012) was designed to test whether we can automatically indicate the real world size of an object when the object is familiar. Participants are asked to make a judgment about the visual size of the object shown on screen. In one of the conditions the real-world size of the familiar objects represented the visual size on the screen (“congruent trials”) participants were faster to recall which was the real-world size when the visual size was congruent than when asked to judge the visual size objects not being the same as the real-world size (“incongruent trials”). The findings of this study further illustrate that the stroop effect interferes when performing a very basic perceptual …show more content…
In a different study, “The role of modality: Auditory and visual distractors in Stroop interference” (Elliott, 2014) explores Stroop’s findings and examines if additional distractors would interfere with participant’s performance. The objective of this study tested the perception that involves the interaction of different sensory modalities, both auditory and visual stroop when presented to a distracting stimuli. Participants were asked to name the colors of the stimuli, while ignoring auditory distractors such as words irrelevant to colors. Participants performed significantly slower and had more errors when color naming the incongruent color words while an auditory stimulus was present. The task of response selection was more difficult for participants when having visual and auditory modalities than it would have been with a single distractor in only one modality (Elliott, 2014). The findings demonstrate that perceptual processes can be significantly influenced to interference effects, especially when the stimulus targets different