The Stroop effect is related to selective attention because
a. people are required to pay selective attention to the shape of the object, rather than its meaning.
b. people are required to pay selective attention to the color of the stimulus, rather than the name of the stimulus.
c. the stimuli elicit selective parallel distributed processing.
d. attention involves only bottom-up processing.
Ans: b
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