The Modified Stroop Task Is Susceptible to Feigning: Stroop Performance and Symptom Over-endorsement in Feigned Test Anxiety

Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified stroop task.

This study used an emotional face stroop task to investigate the effects of self-report trait anxiety, social concern (SC), and chronological age (CA) on reaction time to match coloured outlines of angry, happy, and neutral faces (and control faces with scrambled features) with coloured buttons in a community sample of 74 children aged 6-12 years. The results showed an interference of colour ma...

Evidence from a Modified Stroop Task

Anxiety, emotional distraction, and attentional control in the Stroop task.

Using a Stroop task, we investigated the effect of task-irrelevant emotional distractors on attentional proactive control and its interaction with trait anxiety. On the basis of recent findings showing opposed neural responses in the dorsal-executive versus the ventral-emotional systems in response to emotional distractors and of the attentional control theory (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Cal...

Task conflict in the Stroop task: When Stroop interference decreases as Stroop facilitation increases in a low task conflict context

In the present study participants completed two blocks of the Stroop task, one in which the response-stimulus interval (RSI) was 3500 ms and one in which RSI was 200 ms. It was expected that, in line with previous research, the shorter RSI would induce a low Task Conflict context by increasing focus on the color identification goal in the Stroop task and lead to a novel finding of an increase i...

Scoring the Stroop test.

The Stroop Test, also known as the color-word naming test, has been used in over sixty published psychological studies since the test was originally described by Stroop (2). The test has been used to attempt to measure a variety of processes and traits in the cognitive and personality domains, which it is not the purpose of this article to review. The psychometric characteristics of the Stroop ...