Buttelmann, David; Berger, Philip (2019). Inventing a new measurement for inhibitory control in preschoolers. British journal of developmental psychology, 37(1), pp. 1-13. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/bjdp.12242
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One of the most prominent tasks to measure spatial‐conflict inhibitory control in preschoolers is the windows task (Russell et al., 1991, Br. J. Dev. Psychol., 9, 331). However, this task has been criticized given its high demands on abilities other than inhibition. The aim of the current set of studies was to establish the ‘car task’ as a novel instrument to assess conflict inhibition in children. In this task, children are asked to point at the current location of an occluded object. To do so, they have to inhibit a misleading colour cue in front of the locations in critical trials. In Study 1, we demonstrated that 3‐ to 6‐year‐old children's (N = 88) performance in the car task correlated positively with that in the windows task (even after controlling for age). Study 2 investigated whether children's failure in the car task might be caused by their inability to master the basic processes involved in the task rather than a lack of inhibition. We presented a new group of preschoolers (N = 85) with a modified version of the task without any misleading colour cues. Performance significantly improved, indicating that the difficulty of the car task lies in the necessity to inhibit the misleading colour cue leading towards the incorrect location. These findings suggest that the car task is a valid measurement of spatial‐conflict inhibition in children.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Buttelmann, David |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
ISSN: |
0261-510X |
Publisher: |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jennifer Ruth Sprenger |
Date Deposited: |
16 Dec 2019 13:58 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:33 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1111/bjdp.12242 |
PubMed ID: |
29574907 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.136654 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/136654 |
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