John Ridley Stroop

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John Ridley Stroop (March 21, 1897 – September 1, 1973) was an American psychologist.

Stroop was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA. He developed a color-word task in 1935, named after him (the Stroop effect), to demonstrate interference in attention.

After obtaining his PhD from the George Peabody College he left psychology but returned to Nashville, Tennessee, where he became professor of biblical studies at David Lipscomb College, later known as Lipscomb University.

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JOHN RIDLEY STROOP: CREATOR OF A LANDMARK COGNITIVE TASK
Colin M. MacLeod, John Ridley Stroop: Creator of a Landmark Cognitive Task. Biography of John Ridley Stroop.
Arthur R. Jensen, "Citation Classic – The Stroop color-word test – a review", Citation Classic Commentaries, Number 39, 1981 September 28.

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Name	Stroop, John Ridley
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Short description	John Ridley Stroop was the man who invented the Stroop effect test. “John Ridley Stroop was born March 21, 1897 in a small farming community called Hall's Hill, in Rutherford County, seven miles outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee.” (http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~cmacleod/Research/Stroopbiog.htm) He was always the top of his class, and was voted class valedictorian at David Lipscomb Junior College. He taught there, along whith teaching High School. After that he also went to George Peabody College, were he got a phd in phscology. He was Professor of Psychology and Education at David Lipscomb Junior College, were he invented the stroop effect test. “His research followed studies being conducted at the time on interference or inhibition but using materials that were similar in nature to those employed in color naming-word reading studies.” (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Applied_History_of_Psychology/History_of_Research_on_Attention#John_Ridley_Stroop_and_The_Stroop_Effect) “He developed a color-word task in 1935, the Stroop Effect, named after him demonstrate interference in attention. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridley_Stroop)
Date of birth	March 21, 1897
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Date of death	September 1, 1973
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John Ridley Stroop

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