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1. A new measure for assessing executive function across a wide age range: children and adults find happy-sad more difficult than day-night

Author

Michael Monsour, Liat Sayfan, and Kristin Hansen Lagattuta

Subjects
'Happy' face, Range (music), Cognitive Neuroscience, media_common.quotation_subject, book.written_work, Task (project management), Age groups, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychology, Function (engineering), book, Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Stroop effect, media_common
Abstract

Two experiments examined 4- to 11-year-olds' and adults' performance (N = 350) on two variants of a Stroop-like card task: the day-night task (say 'day' when shown a moon and 'night' when shown a sun) and a new happy-sad task (say 'happy' for a sad face and 'sad' for a happy face). Experiment 1 featured colored cartoon drawings. In Experiment 2, the happy-sad task featured photographs, and pictures for both measures were gray scale. All age groups made more errors and took longer to respond to the happy-sad versus the day-night versions. Unlike the day-night task, the happy-sad task did not suffer from ceiling effects, even in adults. The happy-sad task provides a methodological advance for measuring executive function across a wide age range.

Published
2010

2. A new measure for assessing executive function across a wide age range: children and adults find happy-sad more difficult than day-night

Author

Kristin Hansen, Lagattuta, Liat, Sayfan, and Michael, Monsour

Subjects
Adult, Male, Executive Function, Adolescent, Child, Preschool, Stroop Test, Reaction Time, Humans, Female, Perception, Child
Abstract

Two experiments examined 4- to 11-year-olds' and adults' performance (N = 350) on two variants of a Stroop-like card task: the day-night task (say 'day' when shown a moon and 'night' when shown a sun) and a new happy-sad task (say 'happy' for a sad face and 'sad' for a happy face). Experiment 1 featured colored cartoon drawings. In Experiment 2, the happy-sad task featured photographs, and pictures for both measures were gray scale. All age groups made more errors and took longer to respond to the happy-sad versus the day-night versions. Unlike the day-night task, the happy-sad task did not suffer from ceiling effects, even in adults. The happy-sad task provides a methodological advance for measuring executive function across a wide age range.

Published
2011

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