Automatic effects of instructions: a tale of two paradigms.

ABSTRACT: When examining rapid instructed task learning behaviorally, one out of two paradigms is usually used, the Inducer-Diagnostic (I-D) and the NEXT paradigm. Even though both paradigms are supposed to examine the same phenomenon of Automatic Effect of Instructions (AEI), there are some meaningful differences between them, notably in the size of the AEI. In the current work, we examined, in two pre-registered studies, the potential reasons for these differences in AEI size. Study 1 examined the influence of the data-analytic approach by comparing two existing relatively large data-sets, one from each paradigm (Braem et al., in Mem Cogn 47:1582-1591, 2019; Meiran et al., in Neuropsychologia 90:180-189, 2016). Study 2 focused on the influence of instruction type (concrete, as in NEXT, and abstrac

SUBMITTER: Amir I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8477365 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature