Stroop Effect Summary
Diagnosing and Treating PTSD with the Stroop Effect
Yoel Alperin
Riverwood International Charter School
Many studies have been conducted about the Stroop Effect and about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, however few discuss how the two are related. It’s not surprising that researchers don’t see the two as having any effect on each other and on the surface that is true. It’s hard to believe that a famous study explaining inhibition has any relation to a terrifying disorder caused by extreme trauma. Post-Traumatic Stress affects 2.4% of the United States and is found in 8% of men and 20% of women in the Army. These two seemingly distant ideas are very much alike. The Stroop Effect can be used to diagnose and treat Post-Traumatic …show more content…
The authors’ took into account the inhibition from Stroop effect related situations and the nature of the disorder. Unlike many other articles about PTSD the author’s decided to focus more on women and children who have experienced sexual trauma. The study concluded that though there where many similarities that PTSD shares with anxiety disorders, it is mostly a stress-induced fear disorder. Unlike most secondary articles, this article is objective in researching PTSD. There is no specific thesis they are trying to prove. On the contrary, their objective is to inform the world about PTSD and give their opinion about diagnosing and treating it. This article will be one of the subtopics in the PTSD theme because of its in-depth explanation of different components of PTSD. The article explains PTSD in places other then war, making it feel more personal and …show more content…
The author of the article was one of the top psychologists of his time and worked along many other famous psychologists to form some of the greatest psychological theories and concepts. This is an article about one of the two main topics discussed in the literature review while all other arguments branch off of the three major points. Stroop created the experiment with an objective approach having no idea what he would discover or if he would discover anything at all. Because of Stroop’s work, we understand the idea of interference in daily life. This article will serve as my first theme for the topic. It is important for readers to understand the Stroop Effect before I discuss PTSD because the interference explained by the Stroop Effect appears everywhere in the explanation of PTSD. By establishing the Stroop Effect as the first idea, I make it clear that it is the most important thing to understand in the paper. Through this establishment, I clarify the direction that the literature review is headed and what areas need more
Yoel Alperin
Riverwood International Charter School
Many studies have been conducted about the Stroop Effect and about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, however few discuss how the two are related. It’s not surprising that researchers don’t see the two as having any effect on each other and on the surface that is true. It’s hard to believe that a famous study explaining inhibition has any relation to a terrifying disorder caused by extreme trauma. Post-Traumatic Stress affects 2.4% of the United States and is found in 8% of men and 20% of women in the Army. These two seemingly distant ideas are very much alike. The Stroop Effect can be used to diagnose and treat Post-Traumatic …show more content…
The authors’ took into account the inhibition from Stroop effect related situations and the nature of the disorder. Unlike many other articles about PTSD the author’s decided to focus more on women and children who have experienced sexual trauma. The study concluded that though there where many similarities that PTSD shares with anxiety disorders, it is mostly a stress-induced fear disorder. Unlike most secondary articles, this article is objective in researching PTSD. There is no specific thesis they are trying to prove. On the contrary, their objective is to inform the world about PTSD and give their opinion about diagnosing and treating it. This article will be one of the subtopics in the PTSD theme because of its in-depth explanation of different components of PTSD. The article explains PTSD in places other then war, making it feel more personal and …show more content…
The author of the article was one of the top psychologists of his time and worked along many other famous psychologists to form some of the greatest psychological theories and concepts. This is an article about one of the two main topics discussed in the literature review while all other arguments branch off of the three major points. Stroop created the experiment with an objective approach having no idea what he would discover or if he would discover anything at all. Because of Stroop’s work, we understand the idea of interference in daily life. This article will serve as my first theme for the topic. It is important for readers to understand the Stroop Effect before I discuss PTSD because the interference explained by the Stroop Effect appears everywhere in the explanation of PTSD. By establishing the Stroop Effect as the first idea, I make it clear that it is the most important thing to understand in the paper. Through this establishment, I clarify the direction that the literature review is headed and what areas need more