Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (3): 68-76.

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The Negative Priming Effect and the Conditions under Which It Is Elicited in the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task

JIANG Qiu-rong, LI Hong   

  1. School of Psychology, Southwest China University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Online:2009-07-15 Published:2009-07-15

Abstract: In order to study the role of negative priming in the flexible rule use of children, three experiments were used to examine the negative priming effect and its development in 3-4 years old children.Experiment 1 clarif ied that most 3 and 4 years old children had surprising difficulties in passing the standard negative priming version of DCCS and their performance followed the same developmental trend as in the standard version..Experiment 2 explored the conditions under which NP was elicited in the DCCS.It indicated that where there was a conflict in the pre-switch phrase, there was NP.No matter they were conflicting rules or conflicting values.We thought selective at ention together with active inhibition which were both elicited by conflict were critical to NP.The last experiment examined what children inhibited when they act ively inhibited in the NP version of DCCS.It showed that children actually inhibited the irrelevant dimension which was an upper level instead of one or several specific values.In all, we thought negative priming may also be a problem for children to overcome in the development of cognitive flexibility.

Key words: flexible rule use, negative priming, inhibition, conflict

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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