John Ridley Stroop: conflicting stimuli

How to create reflex decisions and avoid cognitive load

The John Ridley Stroop effect illustrates how easy it is to confuse visitors on a webpage. Just a small amount of conflict or problems with your content and page design will increase the cognitive effort of processing information by a factor of 2 or 3. So what seems clear and obvious to you may well be creating content conflict and a problem for your visitors.

In this CRO course:
We explain the John Ridley Stroop effect. It demonstrates how your content can create conflict that will exponentially increase cognitive effort. The result of conflicting content on your webpage is higher exit rates and lower times on a page.

Just a few things you will learn:
  • The customer experience can be hurt by the content we create.
  • Confusing or contradictory content will hurt cognition.
  • Conflicting visual stimuli increases cognitive effort.
  • Identify and remove conflicts to increase conversion rates.
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    About the course

    Quick facts about the course, whom its for, how long it is

    • Complexity level: Fundamental principle course

    • For whom? Marketers, CRO teams, content editors

    • Length: Simple quick course ~20 minutes

    Course curriculum

    • 1

      Stroop test: Conflicting visual stimuli hurts the user experience

      • 1- John Ridley Stroop: Introduction
      • 2- John Ridley Stroop: Experiment and exercise
      • 3- John Ridley Stroop: Example of conflicting stimuli
      • 4- - John Ridley Stroop: Example 2 of conflicting content messages
      • 5- John Ridley Stroop: Summary and key points

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    FAQ

    • What is the CRO bundle?

      The courses are not meant to be sold separately since most of the knowledge is built from previous courses...
      So getting the CRO Course Bundle gives you all the courses, existing and upcoming, with full freedom to watch individual courses in any order you want.

    • What makes your courses unique?

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      The courses are based on rules and principles we developed and taught in our CRO agency.
      Unlike a lot of courses that are very good, but very theoretical, and most people find it difficult to apply to a website or AB testing. These rules and principles I use all the time to build my experiments and guide my conversion optimization decisions

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      No not really. each course is between 20 to 40 minutes on average, designed to establish fundamental principles you will need to evaluate your own pages and site journey.
      The multi-lesson courses are longer in the 40 to 90-minute range.

      All courses are made up of individual "lessons" and each lesson is from 2 to 15 minutes long.

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      The initial CRO training program was designed as a series of sequential courses,starting from #1 and then #2 etc.. But, some companies and people don't want to go through all of them in sequence, so you are free to jump around. I recommend that you start from the beginning as the courses build up knowledge in layers and references learnings from previous courses

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