title: Measuring task-switching ability in the Implicit Association Test.
abstract: Recently, the role of method-specific variance in the Implicit Association Test (IAT) was examined (McFarland & Crouch, 2002; Mierke & Klauer, 2003). This article presents a new content-unspecific control task for the assessment of task-switching ability within the IAT methodology. Study 1 showed that this task exhibited good internal consistency and stability. Studies 2-4 examined method-specific variance in the IAT and showed that the control task is significantly associated with conventionally scored IAT effects of the IAT-Anxiety. Using the D measures proposed by Greenwald, Nosek, and Banaji (2003), the amount of method-specific variance in the IAT-Anxiety could be reduced. Possible directions for future research are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: Mitja D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Back
authors.forename: Stefan C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Schmukle
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Egloff
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D003210:Concept Formation; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011930:Reaction Time; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012718:Set, Psychology