The effects of real-time performance feedback and performance emphasis on the sustained attention to response task (SART)

Mensen, Justin M.; Dang, Jasmine S.; Stets, Andrew J.; Helton, William S.

doi:10.1007/s00426-021-01602-6

“…The "speeding" effect of the feedback was more evident in the condition consistent with the automatically activated association of the respondents. This potentially suggests that respondents might adopt different speed-accuracy trade-offs according to the feedback presentation or lack of thereof, consistent with previous findings on tasks similar to the IAT (e.g., Mensen et al, 2021;Szalma, 2009). Feedback presentation makes the respondents aware of the unlikelihood of the occurrence of incorrect responses.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…1 Associative conditions of a Race IAT variations in the performance to the feedback presentation. Other evidence (Mensen et al, 2021;Szalma, 2009) further suggests that the feedback presentation either improves the performance or influences the speed-accuracy trade-off in a Go/No-go task (i.e., the sustained attention response task). Finally, since it is not always possible to ascertain whether the IAT administration included feedback presentation or not (Ellithorpe et al, 2015), understanding whether feedback presentation does affect the performance may stress the need for better reporting in IAT studies to better understand the obtained results.…”

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Is the performance at the implicit association test sensitive to feedback presentation? A Rasch-based analysis

Epifania

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,

Anselmi

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,

Robusto

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2022

Psychological Research

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The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is commonly used for the indirect assessment of psychological constructs. While the features of the IAT that might influence the performance of the respondents have been extensively investigated, the effect of informing the respondents about the correctness of their responses (i.e., feedback presentation) has been poorly addressed so far. The study addresses this issue by presenting an across-domain (implicit prejudice and food preference) Rasch-based analysis of IAT data obtained with and without feedback presentation. Results showed that speed was influenced by the interaction between feedback presentation and associative condition, whereas accuracy was influenced by the associative condition. This result varied across-domain. Results suggested that IATs administered with feedback presentation provide more accurate information on the construct of interest.

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“…In place of the sustained attention to response task, we adopted the metronome response task . Some have argued that the sustained attention to response task is a poor behavioral measure of attention because of response strategies which can modulate speedaccuracy trade-offs (e.g., Mensen et al, 2022). The metronome response task overcomes such issues by having participants tap along to a metronome and quantifying performance as response variability rather than speed and accuracy.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do You Know If You Were Mind Wandering? Dissociating Explicit Memories of Off Task Thought From Subjective Feelings of Inattention

Mathews,

Bin Faiz,

Brosowsky

2024

Open Mind

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Mind wandering is a common experience in which your attention drifts away from the task at hand and toward task-unrelated thoughts. To measure mind wandering we typically use experience sampling and retrospective self-reports, which require participants to make metacognitive judgments about their immediately preceding attentional states. In the current study, we aimed to better understand how people come to make such judgments by introducing a novel distinction between explicit memories of off task thought and subjective feelings of inattention. Across two preregistered experiments, we found that participants often indicated they were “off task” and yet had no memory of the content of their thoughts—though, they were less common than remembered experiences. Critically, remembered experiences of mind wandering and subjective feelings of inattention differed in their behavioral correlates. In Experiment 1, we found that only the frequency of remembered mind wandering varied with task demands. In contrast, only subjective feelings of inattention were associated with poor performance (Experiments 1 and 2) and individual differences in executive functioning (Experiment 2). These results suggest that the phenomenology of mind wandering may differ depending on how the experiences are brought about (e.g., executive functioning errors versus excess attentional resources), and provide preliminary evidence of the importance of measuring subjective feelings of inattention when assessing mind wandering.

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“…In place of the sustained attention to response task, we adopted the metronome response task (Seli et al, 2013). Some have argued that the sustained attention to response task is a poor behavioral measure of attention because of response strategies which can modulate speed-accuracy trade-offs (e.g., Mensen et al, 2022). The metronome response task overcomes such issues by having participants tap along to a metronome and quantifying performance as response variability rather than speed and accuracy.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do you know if you were mind wandering? Dissociating explicit memories of off task thought from subjective feelings of inattention.

Mathews,

Bin Faiz,

Brosowsky

2023

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Mind wandering is a common experience in which your attention drifts away from the task at hand and toward task-unrelated thoughts. To measure mind wandering we typically use experience sampling and retrospective self-reports, which require participants to make metacognitive judgments about their immediately preceding attentional states. In the current study, we aimed to better understand how people come to make such judgments by introducing a novel distinction between explicit memories of off task thought and subjective feelings of inattention. Across two preregistered experiments, we found that participants often indicated they were “off task” and yet had no memory of the content of their thoughts—though, they were less common than remembered experiences. Critically, remembered experiences of mind wandering and subjective feelings of inattention differed in their behavioral correlates. In Experiment 1, we found that only the frequency of remembered mind wandering varied with task demands. In contrast, only subjective feelings of inattention were associated with poor performance (Experiments 1 and 2) and individual differences in executive functioning (Experiment 2). These results suggest that the phenomenology of mind wandering may differ depending on how the experiences are brought about (e.g., executive functioning errors versus excess attentional resources), and provide preliminary evidence of the importance of measuring subjective feelings of inattention when assessing mind wandering.

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The effects of real-time performance feedback and performance emphasis on the sustained attention to response task (SART)

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Is the performance at the implicit association test sensitive to feedback presentation? A Rasch-based analysis

Is the performance at the implicit association test sensitive to feedback presentation? A Rasch-based analysis

How Do You Know If You Were Mind Wandering? Dissociating Explicit Memories of Off Task Thought From Subjective Feelings of Inattention

How do you know if you were mind wandering? Dissociating explicit memories of off task thought from subjective feelings of inattention.

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