stroop in A Sentence

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    To understand what's meant by“urge” here, it helps to understand the Stroop effect.

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    The participants had to walk for a minute while also either completing a Stroop task or just walking normally.

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    In the Stroop test, participants are shown the name of a color, but the name is written in a different color.

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    The Stroop test measures how accurately someone is able to minimise distraction from the written word when reporting the ink colour.

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    I also asked participants to rate their urge to change their answer- similar to the urge to make an error in the Stroop test.

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    However, when the men of any age group walked and performed the Stroop test at the same time, the swing in their right arm decreased dramatically.

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    In men and older women, the Stroop test appeared to overwhelm the left brain to the extent that the movement of the arm on the right was reduced.

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    The right arm is controlled by the left side of the brain which, as mentioned earlier, is also where the processing areas activated during the Stroop test are.

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    The functional decoding of the three clusters showed patterns of how each cluster correlates with a group of psychological tests, for example the Stroop test, go/no-go task which involve fast decisions, pain monitoring tasks, and reward-assessing tasks, to name a few.

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    That is, just as people in the Stroop task feel the impulse to incorrectly read the word, I thought that strong moral beliefs might cause people to feel impulses to make decisions that maximize their distance from people they believe have different morals.

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    However, we think the fact premenopausal women seem to be resistant to interference may have something to do with the specific region of the brain we believe is used for both the Stroop task and arm swing- the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain.

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