The stroop effect speed test: For Research.

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http://www.whatthefreek.com/stroop/

The stroop effect, Another thread brought up this subject.

Through my desperately to find a cure for Aspergers Syndrome, I want to conduct a test based on the stroop effect. I recently bought the Brian Training DS and it had a similar test to the one on the link.

I want to find out for sure that NTs would be better at these tests then Aspies. Since I am not sure who has the biggest case of asperger or not . So want to get the results from male and female. It is almost beyond a doubt that male aspies in general have least like NTs then aspie woman, who are more NT like.

I am a Male and scored 54 seconds I did get some practice with DS thougy

the way that test was implemented was crappy. When the letters are white you can't see anything, so I sat there for a good 20 sec before I realized. Sometimes it would show the same color config twice in a row and I would sit and wait for a change before realizing. Taking it a second time, after I knew of these problems, I did much better.

Results:

26 seconds
your neuropsychologicalness is at its peak

(it should say 'your reaction time and ability to find the right keys on the keyboard are good'.)

I'm female.

Unbalenced
1min 46econds
1 wrong attempt

And that was my 3 rd attempt the otheres were more than 2 minutes

This test gave me a hard time at first because the color used for orange looked more yellow to me and of course when I said yellow, it marked me as wrong. So it took me a few seconds to get that right. Then I screwed up hitting enter, when I was already on the next color. So it took me 58 seconds, probably 20 or so of which had nothing to do with doing the actual test.

-J.

Okay, tried it again and got 40... and that with about give white letter words too!

-J.

Unbalanced

1 min 56 sec

No wrong attempts

Second attempt after getting confused by "orange" that looks yellow to me the first time.

I'm male and diagnosed HFA.

This test seems to measure typing speed as much as anything else.

You could be right about that - I am a writer (and have been one for over 20 years), so I type very, very fast.

-J.

51 seconds, and I am an extraordinarily fast typer.

37 seconds, 0 wrong attempts, very fast typer, already familiar with the nature of the Stroop Test/Effect, and have taken similar mini-Stroop tests before (i.e., practice effect).

Thanks for the headsup about the white words; so stupid. The first one took me by surprise, waiting for something to come, but I suddenly realized it was a white word.

Shame the test isn't like the DS Brain Drainer that uses voice recognition.

Verdict: reasonably
Your time: 1 min 4 sec
Wrong attempts: 0
your neuropsychologicalness is within a normal range

I'm male

Your time: 1 min 6 sec
Wrong attempts: 0
your neuropsychologicalness is within a normal range

That's a crappy test, you couldn't see the white and I sat for a while before realizing that there was a color- I hit enter, thinking it was lagging on showing the next word, but then it counted a mistake. Same thing when I made a typo in entering a word. This test is based more on reaction time and keyboard skills than anything else. I got down to 31 sec with no mistakes, twice scored "unbalanced" because of simple typos. Dxed Asperger's, though HFA is probably a more accurate description.

Time: 1 min 48 seconds

One wrong attempt

Verdict : Unbalanced

I think the test is not that good.

verdict: well balanced

Time: 59 seconds
Wrong attempts: 0

your neuropsychologicalness is at its peak




This includes time spent looking down at the keyboard and back to the screen along with using my mouse to clock to the next question and set the cursor in the text box each time. I'm a very fast typer(100+ words per minute), but I cannot type without looking at the keyboard.