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to measure mental processes involving naming objects as well as reading object names. The elegance of Stroop's research was to apply experimental rigor and a clarity of explanation that led to identification of the tested processes with his name. Stroop developed a color-word task to demonstrate
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interference between reading an object's name and naming an object, and explained some of its psychological characteristics, which were later named the
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