Measuring Task-Switching Ability in the Implicit Association Test
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Hogrefe Publishing Group in Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 52 (3) , 167-179
- https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.52.3.167
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.Keywords
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