Contingency and congruency switch in the congruency sequence effect: a reply to Blais, Stefanidi, and Brewer (2014)

Frontiers in Psychology

James R. Schmidt¹ 

关键词: congruency sequence effect;    Gratton effect;    contingency learning;    switch costs;    conflict adaptation;    cognitive control;    attention;    feature integration;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01405

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Schmidt and De Houwer (2011) introduced the idea that sequential contingency biases might influence the CSE. Often, each distracter is presented more frequently in the congruent color than in each incongruent color. Unfortunately, this introduces a contingency, whereby words are predictive of the congruent response. Contingency biases are larger following an accurately predictive trial than following an incorrectly predictive trial (Schmidt et al., 2007). Thus, contingency biases can contribute to the CSE. Indeed, Mordkoff (2012) showed that, with feature repetitions removed, the CSE is present in a contingency-biased Simon task, but is not observed in a contingency-unbiased version of the same task.

【 授权许可】

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