Adults' versus children's performance on the Stroop task: Interference and facilitation.
Stroop tasks (Stroop, 1935) present stimuli having two dimensions, and participants respond to one dimension whilst ignoring the other. The two dimensions are made congruent, incongruent or neutral with respect to one another. Many claim that ‘Stroop interference’ is higher in children than in adult...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 94; no. 4; pp. 475 - 486 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
November 2003
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