Warped words game

You may also receive occasional early teaser images from a future release of the game. Skip navigation. We use cookies to improve your experience using this site. More information. Select a membership level. Delayed Access Game Only Tier. Game Tier. About Warped Animation. Warped Animation exists to create original digital art and animated adult games. The current game under development is called, "Sugar Daddies.

Style: MLA. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! A daily challenge for crossword fanatics. Love words? Need even more definitions? Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? How 'literally' can mean "figuratively". When you try to name the color in which color words are printed, it takes longer when the color word differs from the ink color than when the color word is the same as the ink color.

Naming the colors was much harder for the second box, right? You may even have felt like you were fighting back an urge to read the color word out loud, rather than naming the color of the letters. This phenomenon was described in in a now-famous paper by John Ridley Stroop, and is known in experimental psychology as the Stroop effect.

One explanation for the Stroop effect is called interference. From the earliest years of school, reading is a task that people practice every day. We become so good at it that we read words automatically.

When we are asked to name the color of the word instead of reading the word, somehow the automatic reading of the word interferes with naming the color of the word. This experiment explores what you can do to change the presentation of the word in order to eliminate the Stroop effect.

For example, if you print the words in the shape of a circle, does it make reading the word slow enough so that the interference effect is reduced or canceled? Does it make a difference if the letters are in clockwise order or counterclockwise order? Figure 1 below has examples to show what we mean, and the Experimental Procedure section has a pdf file that you can download and print requires Adobe Acrobat.

Four rows of letters spelling a color and arranged in a circle with reference colors below: brown, green, purple, red and blue left-to-right. The first line has clockwise words that match the reference ink color. The second line has clockwise words with non-matching ink color.

The third line has counterclockwise words with matching ink color. The fourth line has counterclockwise words with non-matching ink color. Will warping the words into a circle prevent automatic reading and the interference effect that goes with it? Does it matter if the letters are arranged in clockwise vs. Try this experiment to find out! To do this project, you should do research that enables you to understand the following terms and concepts:.

Note: for ISEF-affiliated science fairs, studies involving human subjects require prior approval. For more information, see Projects Involving Human Subjects. This science fair procedure calls for two different experiments, a positive control experiment and an interference test. Details for each are discussed below. Please note that the same volunteers can participate in both experiments.

But, to ensure that you are not introducing experimental bias , randomly assign volunteers to two groups. Group one will do the positive control experiment first and the interference test second. Group two will do the interference test first and the positive control experiment second. Menu Science Projects. Project Guides.

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Warped Words and the Stroop Effect. Areas of Science. Human Behavior. For ISEF-affiliated science fairs, studies involving human subjects require prior approval.