Using Implicit Association Tests in Age-Heterogeneous Samples: The Importance of Cognitive Abilities and Quad Model Processes
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- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Metadaten:
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- Autoren
- Cornelia Wrzus
- Boris Egloff
- Michaela Riediger
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000407789100004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1037/pag0000176
- eISSN
- 1939-1498
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: FD8QL
- PubMed Identifier: 28557469
- ISSN
- 0882-7974
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 5
- Zeitschrift
- PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
- Schlüsselwörter
- implicit association test
- life span
- cognitive abilities
- quad model
- multinomial modeling
- Paginierung
- 432 - 446
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Using Implicit Association Tests in Age-Heterogeneous Samples: The Importance of Cognitive Abilities and Quad Model Processes
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 32
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
- Andere Metadatenquellen:
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- Autoren
- Cornelia Wrzus
- Boris Egloff
- Michaela Riediger
- DOI
- 10.1037/pag0000176
- eISSN
- 1939-1498
- ISSN
- 0882-7974
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 5
- Zeitschrift
- Psychology and Aging
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2017
- Paginierung
- 432 - 446
- Status
- Published online
- Herausgeber
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000176
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2024
- Titel
- Using implicit association tests in age-heterogeneous samples: The importance of cognitive abilities and quad model processes.
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 32
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- Implicit association tests (IATs) are increasingly used to indirectly assess people's traits, attitudes, or other characteristics. In addition to measuring traits or attitudes, IAT scores also reflect differences in cognitive abilities because scores are based on reaction times (RTs) and errors. As cognitive abilities change with age, questions arise concerning the usage and interpretation of IATs for people of different age. To address these questions, the current study examined how cognitive abilities and cognitive processes (i.e., quad model parameters) contribute to IAT results in a large age-heterogeneous sample. Participants (N = 549; 51% female) in an age-stratified sample (range = 12-88 years) completed different IATs and 2 tasks to assess cognitive processing speed and verbal ability. From the IAT data, D2-scores were computed based on RTs, and quad process parameters (activation of associations, overcoming bias, detection, guessing) were estimated from individual error rates. Substantial IAT scores and quad processes except guessing varied with age. Quad processes AC and D predicted D2-scores of the content-specific IAT. Importantly, the effects of cognitive abilities and quad processes on IAT scores were not significantly moderated by participants' age. These findings suggest that IATs seem suitable for age-heterogeneous studies from adolescence to old age when IATs are constructed and analyzed appropriately, for example with D-scores and process parameters. We offer further insight into how D-scoring controls for method effects in IATs and what IAT scores capture in addition to implicit representations of characteristics. (PsycINFO Database Record
- Addresses
- Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg-University.
- Autoren
- Cornelia Wrzus
- Boris Egloff
- Michaela Riediger
- DOI
- 10.1037/pag0000176
- eISSN
- 1939-1498
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 28557469
- Funding acknowledgements
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research: MPI001 and 01UW0706
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: RI 1797/3-1
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research:
- Open access
- false
- ISSN
- 0882-7974
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 5
- Zeitschrift
- Psychology and aging
- Schlüsselwörter
- Humans
- Attitude
- Cognition
- Association
- Age Factors
- Aging
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Middle Aged
- Child
- Female
- Male
- Young Adult
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2017
- Paginierung
- 432 - 446
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
- Status
- Published
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2017
- Titel
- Using implicit association tests in age-heterogeneous samples: The importance of cognitive abilities and quad model processes.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 32
Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central
- Abstract
- Implicit association tests (IATs) are increasingly used to indirectly assess people's traits, attitudes, or other characteristics. In addition to measuring traits or attitudes, IAT scores also reflect differences in cognitive abilities because scores are based on reaction times (RTs) and errors. As cognitive abilities change with age, questions arise concerning the usage and interpretation of IATs for people of different age. To address these questions, the current study examined how cognitive abilities and cognitive processes (i.e., quad model parameters) contribute to IAT results in a large age-heterogeneous sample. Participants (N = 549; 51% female) in an age-stratified sample (range = 12-88 years) completed different IATs and 2 tasks to assess cognitive processing speed and verbal ability. From the IAT data, D2-scores were computed based on RTs, and quad process parameters (activation of associations, overcoming bias, detection, guessing) were estimated from individual error rates. Substantial IAT scores and quad processes except guessing varied with age. Quad processes AC and D predicted D2-scores of the content-specific IAT. Importantly, the effects of cognitive abilities and quad processes on IAT scores were not significantly moderated by participants' age. These findings suggest that IATs seem suitable for age-heterogeneous studies from adolescence to old age when IATs are constructed and analyzed appropriately, for example with D-scores and process parameters. We offer further insight into how D-scoring controls for method effects in IATs and what IAT scores capture in addition to implicit representations of characteristics. (PsycINFO Database Record
- Autoren
- Cornelia Wrzus
- Boris Egloff
- Michaela Riediger
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28557469
- DOI
- 10.1037/pag0000176
- eISSN
- 1939-1498
- Funding acknowledgements
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research:
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 5
- Zeitschrift
- Psychol Aging
- Schlüsselwörter
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Aging
- Association
- Attitude
- Child
- Cognition
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Young Adult
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- United States
- Paginierung
- 432 - 446
- PII
- 2017-23583-001
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2017
- Titel
- Using implicit association tests in age-heterogeneous samples: The importance of cognitive abilities and quad model processes.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 32
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