Classic stroop negative priming effects for children and adults diverge with less-conflicting and nonconflicting conditions
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Pritchard, Verena E. and Neumann, Ewald. (2011). Classic stroop negative priming effects for children and adults diverge with less-conflicting and nonconflicting conditions. American Journal of Psychology. 124(4), pp. 405 - 419. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.124.4.0405
Authors | Pritchard, Verena E. and Neumann, Ewald |
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Abstract | Negative priming indexes an inhibition process that aids target selection by reducing distractor interference. To date, children have produced negative priming only in tasks where distractor response tendencies are consistently greater than or equal to targets and not in tasks containing a substantial proportion of low-conflict distractors. To establish the exact parameters under which children's negative priming attenuates relative to adults, we varied processing demands across 2 experiments involving children and adults. Negative priming was comparable when 100% high-conflict conditions were encountered (Experiment 1) and was intact in adults but not children when a ratio of 50:50 high- to low-conflict conditions was encountered (Experiment 2). Compared with adults, children seem induced to divide attention more generally when lowconflict attentional conditions are included, attenuating negative priming. |
Year | 2011 |
Journal | American Journal of Psychology |
Journal citation | 124 (4), pp. 405 - 419 |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
ISSN | 0002-9556 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.124.4.0405 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84858399610 |
Page range | 405 - 419 |
Research Group | Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
Editors | S. Goodman |
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