The color-word interference test and its relation to performance impairment under auditory distraction.

Thackray, Richard I.; Jones, Karen N.; Touchstone, Robert M.; Civil Aeromedical Institute

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The color-word interference test and its relation to performance impairment under auditory distraction.

1972-03-01
By Thackray, Richard I. ; Jones, Karen N. ; Touchstone, Robert M.

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Thackray, Richard I. ; Jones, Karen N. ; Touchstone, Robert M.

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Civil Aeromedical Institute
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United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
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Air Traffic Controllers Attention Auditory Perception Color Distraction Distraction (Psychology) Experiments Human Subject Testing Lettering Performance--Testing Performance Tests Stimulus Satiation Stress (Psychology) Stroop Color And Word Test Visual Perception
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FAA-AM-72-14 ; DOT/FAA/AM-72/14

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Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
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The ability to resist distraction is an important requirement for air traffic controllers. The study examined the relationship between performance on the Stroop color-word interference test (a suggested measure of distraction susceptibility) and impairment under auditory distraction on a task requiring the subject to generate random sequences of letters. Fifty male college students served as Ss. Although there was a significant decrease in 'randomness' as a result of auditory distraction, the correlation between change in randomness and amount of color-word interference wa nonsignificant.

These findings, along with those of several other studies, suggest that the Stroop test may measure a rather restricted type of perceptual interference essentially unrelated to a possibly more general ability to maintain concentration in the presence of competing (distracting) stimuli.
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