The Stroop Effect

Name the color the word is printed in (but not out loud, lest you look like an rtard):


RED BLUE PURPLE INDIGO, WTF IS INDIGO

GREEN YELLOW ORANGE



aw, that was so easy, congratulate yourself with a pat on the back and a root beer float.

How about these ones:


ELEPHANT PUPPY HAMSTER

DONKEY KITTEN SEA OTTER



And what color are these words printed in?

BLUE YELLOW ORANGE

GREEN PURPLE RED



If you are like most people - and are not synesthetic - the colors of the third grouping of words were probably a little harder to discern than the second and first. This (according to many linguists) is because we access our own lexicon in "lexical neighborhoods" and because these words are grouped together it is hard to access two words in the same neighborhood at one time.


Stroop didn't have many "colored" friends, but his Jamaican Roommate, named Whitey mc White White was often offended.