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In Stroop’s (1935) study on automatic processing in attention, he found that participants took less time to name colors when the word and color were _____, and more time when they were

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The answe is the same and different, respectively.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this experiment, a group of people is asked to tell the font color of a set of words. The task was found to be easier if the word and the font color were congruent (e.g. the word "GREEN" written in a green font), but more difficult if they did not match.

The test is often used to measure selective attention capacity.

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