Cognitive processes in the extrinsic affective simon task: A task-set switching account of EAST effects

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-82

  Voss, Andreas ^a   Klauer, Karl Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EAST; Extrinsic affective simon task; Implicit attitudes; Indirect measures of attitude; Task switching; Task set switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33847244871     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.71     Document Type: Article

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