Is conflict adaptation an illusion?

Frontiers in Psychology

James R. Schmidt¹ 

关键词: conflict adaptation;    contingency learning;    cognitive control;    attention;    timing;    expectancies;    proportion congruent;    congruency sequence effect;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00172

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Conflict adaptation theory is one of the most popular theories in cognitive psychology. The theory argues that participants strategically modulate attention away from distracting stimulus features in response to conflict. This idea was particularly popularized with the publication of the conflict monitoring model of Botvinick et al. (2001). Although the conflict adaptation view is able to explain a wide range of results with a seemingly intuitive set of mechanisms, some researchers have expressed skepticism. The paradigms used in the study of conflict adaptation typically require the manipulation of stimulus frequencies, sequential dependencies, time-on-task regularities, and various other task regularities that introduce the potential for learning of conflict-unrelated information (for a review, see Schmidt, 2013a). This raises the possibility that although the data patterns (e.g., reduced congruency effects following incongruent trials) might be very real, the conflict adaptation mechanism typically used to explain them might be an illusion.

【 授权许可】

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