Friday, April 21, 2006

Color or Colour? Are you American or British?

5 comments:

Stuart said...

my brains must be in perfect harmony. it was easy to say the color.

Joshua 6:27 said...

way to mess a brother up.

John said...

Stu,

Did you try to say the color or the word? One is a lot easier than the other. :-)

Kletos Sumboulos said...

It's called the Stroop task. The left brain/right brain definition is not at all accurate, but truth is much more complicated. My department had an Applied Cognitive Aging psychology program, so I was a participant for many a Stroop task. For more fun, look up the Implicit Association Test and find out, for example, if you are really a racist: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/australia/index.jsp

John said...

Thanks for the clarification, Kletos. I took the test. Very interesting! It said that I have "a strong automatic preference for White People compared to Black People." Now I'm trying to interpret that data in light of my involvement in a multi-ethnic congregation. "Things that make you go...hmmm."