Simpson, A., Upson, M. and Carroll, D.J. (2017) Where does prepotency come from on developmental tests of inhibitory control? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , 162. pp. 18-30. ISSN 0022-0965
Abstract
Understanding the processes that make responses prepotent is central to understanding the role of inhibitory control in cognitive development. The question of what makes responses prepotent was investigated using the two most widely studied measures of preschoolers' inhibitory control. Across two experiments, 80 children were tested either on a series of stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) tasks or on a series of Go/No-go tasks. Results indicated that high levels of prepotency on SRC tasks (such as the Day/Night task) occur only under specific conditions; making a verbal response can be highly prepotent if the stimulus and response are associated with each other (e.g., saying "cup" to a cup) but is less prepotent when they are unassociated (e.g., saying "cup" to a doorstop). Action responses (e.g., lifting a cup to your mouth) show little prepotency irrespective of whether the stimulus and response are associated. In contrast, with Go/No-go tasks, a much wider variety of behaviors are highly prepotent regardless of whether the stimulus and response are associated. These data suggest that prepotency arises in very different ways, depending on the type of task used. Although both Go/No-go tasks and SRC tasks can make inhibitory demands, they do so for fundamentally different reasons.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Inhibitory control; Executive function; Prepotency; Preschoolers; Response inhibition; Artefacts |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2017 11:43 |
Last Modified: | 26 May 2019 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.022 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.022 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117588 |
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