Discuss why the Stroop effect would peak at around second or third grade.
What will be an ideal response?
Stroop interference occurs because reading is automatic, while color naming is less well
practiced. Reading skills develop to the level of being automatic during second or third grade.
Before that point, reading is not well developed and requires effort and attention, so children will
be able to ignore the words to concentrate on naming the colors.
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a. feature-detector cells. b. optic disks. c. bipolar cells. d. opponent-process cells.
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