Alcohol Stroop Task Aim of the task: To find out whether alcohol-related content of a stimulus distracts attention from the color-naming task. It is a variant of the original Stroop task (Stroop, 1935).stimulusStroop, 1935 Method: Participants are presented with a set of stimuli and asked to name the ink color while they ignore the word. © POSbase 2005Contributor
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The difference between reaction times of alcohol-related and neutral words indicates the extent to which attention is focused on alcohol: If colors are named more slowly for alcohol- related rather than neutral words, alcohol-related content interferes with the color naming task.interferes Such effects have been demonstrated (Sharma et al., 2001).Sharma et al., 2001 © POSbase 2005