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The Effect of Corrective Feedback on Performance in Basic Cognitive Tasks: An Analysis of RT Components

Pedro Fernández De Córdoba CastelláDiana Abad-tortosaTatiana Quarti IrigarayEsperanza Navarro-pardoCamila Rosa De OliveiraCraig Leth-steensenBegoña Sáiz-mauleónCarmen Moret-tatayIrani Iracema De Lima ArgimonDaniel GamermannAndrea Vázquez-martínez

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Elementary cognitive taskMatching (statistics)lcsh:BF1-990feedback; stroop; matching task; ex-Gaussian components050109 social psychologyfeedback050105 experimental psychologyTask (project management)Feedback0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsicologia cognitivaTempo de reaçãoGeneral PsychologyCommunicationFeedback corretivoEXPRESION GRAFICA ARQUITECTONICAbusiness.industrystroop05 social sciencesWork (physics)matching taskMatching taskEx-Gaussian componentslcsh:Psychologyex-Gaussian componentsCorrective feedbackStroopbusinessPsychologyMATEMATICA APLICADACognitive psychologyStroop effectResearch Article

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[EN] The current work examines the effect of trial-by-trial feedback about correct and error responding on performance in two basic cognitive tasks: a classic Stroop task (n = 40) and a color-word matching task (n = 30). Standard measures of both RT and accuracy were examined in addition to measures obtained from fitting the ex-Gaussian distributional model to the correct RTs. For both tasks, RTs were faster in blocks of trials with feedback than in blocks without feedback, but this difference was not significant. On the other hand, with respect to the distributional analyses, providing feedback served to significantly reduce the size of the tails of the RT distributions. Such results suggest that, for conditions in which accuracy is fairly high, the effect of corrective feedback might either be to reduce the tendency to double-check before responding or to decrease the amount of attentional lapsing.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-12-01
10.5334/pb.240http://hdl.handle.net/10251/99726