Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Using Negative Priming Tasks in Developmental Studies: Assessing Inhibitory Control in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Autor/inn/en	Pritchard, Verena E.; Neumann, Ewald
Titel	Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Using Negative Priming Tasks in Developmental Studies: Assessing Inhibitory Control in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 45 (2009) 1, S.272-283 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0014168
Schlagwörter	Age; Reaction Time; Young Adults; Adolescents; Age Differences; Cognitive Processes; Inhibition; Cues; Task Analysis; Children; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alter; Lebensalter; Reaktionsvermögen; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Hemmung; Stichwort; Aufgabenanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	Despite being ignored, visual distractors often produce traceable negative priming (NP) effects that can be used to investigate inhibitory processes. Robust NP effects are typically found with young adults, but not with children. Using 2 different NP tasks, the authors compared NP in 5 different age groups spanning 5 to 25 years of age. The 1st task revealed comparable NP between all age groups, but a linear decrease in NP through childhood to early adulthood. In the 2nd task, NP decreased linearly into adulthood, with children actually showing larger NP than adults. This Age Group x NP interaction was eliminated, however, when reaction time data were log transformed to control for age differences in overall processing speed. When appropriately transformed data were used, both experiments showed that NP was intact and comparable between children, adolescents, and adults, and suggested that an inhibitory process is fully developed by early childhood. The results highlight how potential pitfalls might be avoided when comparing NP in children and adults. (Contains 2 tables, 3 figures, and 5 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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