Stroop Test – Can You Read the Colors?
- Posted by Daniel Flück on June 27th, 2007 filed in Tests
In case you’re not colorblind, naming a color is an easy thing. But naming a color if it is a colored word of another color name (e.g. green) is definitely not that easy to accomplish.
The Stroop Test was described by John Ridley Stroop back in 1935. He took some color names and just colored them differently. Try it out yourself with the graphics below. Don’t read the words but say aloud the color names you see.
Did you do well? Even if you have normal color vision, after the first two lines you start struggling because the wrong names are very distracting. And how did you perform, if you have some type of color blindness?
For me it looks interesting and I can see some differences in the colors. But it’s definitely just a guessing game. Colors I can almost not distinguish and therefore have big problems to name them in this graphics are:
- Blue — Purple
- Orange — Green
Do you know, what I like the most about this? It’s the color Red I can spot easily, despite the fact I’m red-blind…
June 29th, 2007 at 20:26
That’s interesting. The only color I know for sure on this is red. The rest all blend together. And red is one of my trouble colors!
June 29th, 2007 at 20:32
Interesting. You mean all of the other four colors blend together, or just the same pairs as I described above in the article?
June 29th, 2007 at 20:43
Oh, just the pairs the way you described. Blue/purple blend and orange/green blend.
July 1st, 2007 at 18:57
[…] Trevor of Trevor’s Birding lives in Australia and since he’s a perceptive fellow, he has the pleasure of observing Rainbow Lorikeets flocking in the wild. Orange is just one of the colors adorning these prismatic parrots. We all know where John of A DC Birding Blog does to get his daily recommended allowance of vivid color. Leading a DC Audubon field trip, he spotted some Brightly-colored Birds in fetching shades of gold and scarlet. Alejna of collecting tokens has been trying to live greener of late. To mark this wise course of action, she presents a green party of sixteen celebrities. Note that these aren’t famous figures known for their environmental awareness but rather their jade appearance. Ho ho ho… Stroop, there it is! Daniel, the king of the Carnival of Colors himself, presents the treacherous Stroop Test at his blog, Colblindor. Can you read the colors? […]
July 11th, 2007 at 19:06
Very interesting. I have problems with the Ishihara test, but no problems with this test at all.
August 20th, 2007 at 9:52
Similar to Mike Matthews I have problems with the Ishihara test but no problems with this one!
November 2nd, 2007 at 16:24
wow the only color that really popped out at me was red and green!!
November 2nd, 2007 at 16:26
wow this web site is cool the only colors i saw was red and green put brighter colors in
November 5th, 2007 at 14:04
its lik really intrestin really cool……. i was jus scannin all dese stuff jus befor i tak ma aviation medical exam…. :)