How did researchers adapt the classic Stroop task to study social anxiety?

A researcher adapts the Stroop task to investigate social anxiety. Match each element of this adapted study to the role it plays in assessing how the participant processes information.

A researcher adapts the Stroop task to study 'Test Anxiety' by using words like 'FAILING' and 'EXAM.' If the adaptation follows the established principles of the Stroop task, a student with high test anxiety will be slower to name the ink color of the word 'FAILING' than they will be to name the ink color of a neutral word like 'BASKET'.

A researcher adapts the Stroop task to analyze social anxiety. Arrange the following steps in the correct logical order to describe the mechanism of cognitive interference and interpretation that occurs in this adapted measure.

Suppose you are designing a new adaptation of the Stroop task to investigate 'Health Anxiety' (the excessive fear of physical illness). To create a valid measure that captures cognitive interference unique to this construct, which configuration of target stimuli and neutral controls should you develop to measure the resulting effect on reaction time ($RT$)?

Match each component of the adapted Stroop task to the specific role it plays in a study on social anxiety.

To evaluate the validity of a Stroop task adaptation for social anxiety, a researcher must verify that the increased reaction time to words like 'failure' is specifically caused by _____ rather than by the participant's lack of familiarity with the word.

In the adapted Stroop task for social anxiety, individuals with high social anxiety are expected to name the ink color of socially threatening words (such as 'stupid') faster than neutral words because the negative connotation of these words increases their focus and speeds up their reaction times.

A clinical psychologist adapts the Stroop task to assess obsessive-compulsive tendencies related to contamination fears. The task presents contamination-related threat words (e.g., 'germs', 'dirt') and neutral control words (e.g., 'paper', 'desk') printed in various ink colors. If a participant has a high fear of contamination, they are expected to take ____ (longer/shorter) to name the ink color of the threat words compared to the neutral words.

An undergraduate researcher is analyzing the cognitive mechanism behind an adapted Stroop task used to measure social anxiety. To understand why individuals with high social anxiety exhibit longer reaction times ($RT$) on socially threatening words (e.g., 'rejected' printed in blue ink) compared to neutral words, they map out the cognitive and response steps.

Arrange the following steps in the correct chronological order, starting from the initial presentation of the stimulus to the delayed verbal response.