Answer: A. try to name colors and ignore words
Explanation: The Stroop effect is a psychological test widely used in clinical practice, wherein individuals are required to say the color of a word but not the name of the word. This serves to show cognitive interference where the cause of the delay in reaction time of the task occurs as a result of a mismatch in stimuli. Some of the applications of the stroop effect include:
1. It is used in brain studies to investigate regions of the brain that play roles in planning, decision-making, and management of interference.
2. It allows an individual's skills and selective attention capacity to be measured
3. Used in determining a person's executive processes etc.
In all, the effect shows that automatic reading has no need for controlled attention. However, enough attentional resources are used in reducing the amount of attention accessible for color information processing.