MacLeod and Kevin Dunbar (1988) conducted a research study which aimed to test the idea of automaticity as a consequence of training. The Training and Stroop-Like Interference: Evidence for Continuum of Automaticity experiment was conducted in a laboratory. Participants received a certain amount of shape-naming training; in the first condition, two hours; in the second condition, five hours; in the third condition, twenty hours. In the first two conditions, color-naming was faster than shape-naming; nevertheless, in the third condition the color and shape naming were produced at the same speed. Results showed that on the first day, the color-naming was more automatic than shape-naming; on the fifth day, the color-naming and shape-naming occurred almost equally automatic; on the twentieth day, the shape-naming happened more automatically than color-naming. The conclusion establishes that color-naming is not an automatic process, however it is possible to name colors faster with …show more content…
The research was a laboratory experiment. There were two samples in which one condition received a 20% conflicting-stimuli trial, and 80% compatible-stimuli trial, the other condition received a 80% conflicting-stimuli trial, and 20% compatible-stimuli trial. Interference decreased as the conflicting-stimuli trials increased., reaction time in the first condition was longer (96 msec slower) than the reaction time taken by participants from the second condition (7 msec faster). Conclusions established that “strategy-dependent interference may not pose a serious problem in interpreting existing