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The effects of adjective meaning on response to color: A test using Stroop task

형용사의 의미가 색 구별에 미치는 영향: 스트룹 과제를 통한 검증

  • 홍성균 (광운대학교 산업심리학과) ;
  • 김경호 (광운대학교 산업심리학과) ;
  • 이형철 (광운대학교 산업심리학과) ;
  • 김신우 (광운대학교 산업심리학과)
  • Received : 2017.02.17
  • Accepted : 2017.02.20
  • Published : 2017.03.31

Abstract

Stroop effect(Stroop, 1935) is a reliable paradigm which has been used in various psychological research. Although classic Stroop experiment used color and color name for experimental stimuli, subsequent research reported that a color(e.g. green) and an object(e.g. grass) which displays a typical color show similar effects depending on color-object congruency(Klein, 1964). Because past research that used Stroop effect to investigate semantic representation tested association between concrete object and color, they predominantly used concrete nouns and their corresponding color names as stimuli(e.g. Dalrymple-Alford, 1968, 1972; Klein, 1964). Recently, Sherman and Clore(2009) reported that response time to white or black words is affected by moral value of words (e.g., honesty, crime) even when the words do not have specific referents. Based on this result, we tested association between thermesthesia-related adjectives(e.g., 따스한, 냉정한) and color(warm color, cold color) using Stroop task. The results showed that subjects were faster in their response to color when adjective-color was congruent than when incongruent, and there was an interaction between color and meaning of adjectives. The Stroop effect in this research is unique because, contrary to previous research that used concrete nouns, the effect was obtained even with abstract adjectives which do not have specific referents. In addition, unlike Sherman and Clore(2009) that used achromatic color, our results show that Stroop effect obtains between abstract adjectives and chromatic color.

스트룹 효과(Stroop, 1935)는 매우 신뢰롭게 관찰되는 현상으로 이를 응용한 다양한 연구들이 존재한다. 전통적인 스트룹 실험에서는 색과 색 이름을 실험자극으로 사용하였으나 이후 연구들은 어떤 색(예: green)과 그 색을 전형적으로 보여주는 대상의 이름 (예: grass)을 사용한 경우에도 일치 혹은 불일치 조건에 따라 유사한 효과가 발생한다는 것을 보고하였다(Klein, 1964). 그런데 의미표상(semantic representation)의 검증을 위해 스트룹 효과를 활용한 기존 연구들은 대부분 구체적인 대상들과 색의 연합을 검증했기 때문에 구체명사(concrete noun)와 그에 상응하는 색 이름을 연구에 활용하였다(예: Dalrymple-Alford, 1968, 1972; Klein, 1964). 그런데 최근 Sherman과 Clore(2009)는 구체적 대상이 없는 단어의 도덕적인 의미(예: honesty, crime)에 따라 흰색 혹은 검은색으로 제시되었을 때에도 색에 대한 반응이 빨라지거나 느려진다는 것을 보고하였다. 이에 근거하여 본 연구에서는 스트룹 과제를 사용하여 형용사의 온열감각 차원의 의미 (예: 따스한, 냉정한)와 색 온도 (따뜻한 색, 차가운 색)의 연합을 스트룹 과제를 통해 검증하였다. 그 결과 형용사의 온열차원의 의미와 색 온도가 불일치할 때 보다 일치할 때 참가자들은 색에 대해 더 빠르게 반응한다는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 형용사의 의미와 색 온도 간의 상호작용을 관찰할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 스트룹 관련 연구들에서 주로 사용해온 구체명사가 아닌 추상적인 형용사에서도 스트룹 효과가 발생한다는 것을 보여주었다는 점에서 기존 연구들과 차이점을 가진다. 또한 무채색을 사용한 Sherman과 Clore(2009)의 연구와 달리 색상을 사용한 경우에도 단어의 의미에 따라 스트룹 효과를 획득할 수 있다는 새로운 결과를 보여준다.

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