chronometric analysis

a method for studying a mental process that involves varying stimulus input conditions and measuring participants’ reaction times to those stimuli. The relations between the stimulus variables and reaction times are then used to make inferences about the underlying mental processes. Also called mental chronometry. See Donders’s method.

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May 10th 2024

Personalized Implicit Association Test

an implicit attitude measure designed to eliminate the potential influence of extrapersonal associations on responses. In this procedure, the relatively normative category labels of pleasant and unpleasant are typically replaced with the more personalized category labels of I like and I don’t like, and no feedback is given regarding classification errors. It is a variation of the Implicit Association Test. [developed by U.S. psychologists Michael A. Olson and Russell H. Fazio (1952– )]