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Cognitive Interference in Spastic‐Hemiplegic Children on the Stroop Word‐Color Test
Author(s) -
LEISMAN GERALD
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1971.tb00765.x
Subject(s) - stroop effect , psychology , word (group theory) , audiology , test (biology) , interference (communication) , cognition , spastic , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , cerebral palsy , paleontology , computer network , philosophy , channel (broadcasting) , biology
A research project has been conducted to determine the relationship between efficiency on the Stroop Word‐Color Test (decreased cognitive interference) and age in spastic‐hemiplegic children. Subjects were presented with three sets of cards: ( a ) consisted of 100 words naming colours, ( b ) consisted of 100 rectangular patches of colour which the child had to name as quickly as possible, and (c) consisted of 100 random words naming colours which were printed in an ink of a colour different from the colour named by the word. Cards (c) were the measures of the degree of interference. It was found that in spastic‐hemiplegic children, unlike normals, the interference effect did not decrease with increasing age. It remained relatively constant.