Effects of cognitive set upon laboratory induced verbal (Freudian) slips.
Subjects participated in either of three treatments of a task which elicits verbal slips. With equal chance probabilities of eliciting verbal slips related either to electricity or to sex, subjects receiving a situational cognitive set toward electric shocks made more electricity-type verbal slips than sex-type errors, while the opposite was true for a situational cognitive set toward sex, and no difference occurred for a neutral cognitive set. Results provide insight into psycholinguistic processing of both naturally occurring verbal slips and normal error-free speech.
D003071:Cognition; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior