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Negative priming paradigm adapted to misleading strategies

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The negative priming paradigm, originally designed by Tipper (1985), rests on the logic that "if a distractor (or a strategy) is inhibited on a given item (i.e., the prime), then its activation on the following item (i.e., the probe) should be disrupted". The authors adapted this paradigm so that the misleading strategy required on the prime becomes appropriate on the probe, allowing them to test whether inhibiting the 'greater the whole number, the greater the fraction' strategy is needed to compare fractions with common numerators. The paradigm has been applied across school-learning domains including literacy, mathematics and science to reveal the inhibition of overlearned misleading heuristics.

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  • The negative priming paradigm adapted to misleading strategies as a tool for revealing inhibitory control in school learning: The negative priming paradigm, originally designed by Tipper (1985), rests on the logic that "if a distractor (or a strategy) is inhibited on a given item (i.e., the prime), then its activation on the following item (i.e., the probe) should be disrupted". The authors adapted this paradigm so that the misleading strategy required on the prime becomes appropriate on the probe, allowing them to test whether inhibiting the 'greater the whole number, the greater the fraction' strategy is needed to compare fractions with common numerators. The paradigm has been applied across school-learning domains including literacy, mathematics and science to reveal the inhibition of overlearned misleading heuristics. (Rossi et al. (2019))

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Key Sources

  • Rossi, S., Vidal, J., Letang, M., Houdé, O., & Borst, G. (2019). Adolescents and Adults Need Inhibitory Control to Compare Fractions. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 5(3), 314-336. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.v5i3.197
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title Negative priming paradigm adapted to misleading strategies
description The negative priming paradigm, originally designed by Tipper (1985), rests on the logic that "if a distractor (or a strategy) is inhibited on a given item (i.e., the prime), then its activation on the following item (i.e., the probe) should be disrupted".
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