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Measuring Task-Switching Ability in the Implicit Association Test

Stefan C. SchmukleMitja D. BackBoris Egloff

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AdultMalePersonality TestsTask switchingAdolescentPsychometricsPsychometricsConcept FormationExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyTask (project management)Discrimination LearningArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Internal consistencyReaction TimeHumansAttentionDiscrimination learningSet (psychology)General PsychologyAssociation LearningReproducibility of ResultsImplicit-association testGeneral MedicineVariance (accounting)Pattern Recognition VisualSet PsychologyFemalePsychologySocial psychologyAlgorithms

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Abstract. Recently, the role of method-specific variance in the Implicit Association Test (IAT) was examined ( McFarland & Crouch, 2002 ; Mierke & Klauer, 2003 ). This article presents a new content-unspecific control task for the assessment of task-switching ability within the IAT methodology. Study 1 showed that this task exhibited good internal consistency and stability. Studies 2-4 examined method-specific variance in the IAT and showed that the control task is significantly associated with conventionally scored IAT effects of the IAT-Anxiety. Using the D measures proposed by Greenwald, Nosek, and Banaji (2003 ), the amount of method-specific variance in the IAT-Anxiety could be reduced. Possible directions for future research are outlined.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2005-08-04Experimental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.52.3.167