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The present 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 random generation task. 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 was nonsignificant. This suggests 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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Thackray, R.I., Jones, K.N. & Touchstone, R.M. The color-word interference test and its relation to performance impairment under auditory distraction. Psychon Sci 28, 225–227 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328718
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