Vadillo, MA;
Malejka, S;
Shanks, DR;
(2024)
Mapping the Reliability Multiverse of Contextual Cuing.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
10.1037/xlm0001410.
(In press).
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Abstract
Cronbach (1957) famously noted the divergence between the experimental and psychometric traditions in psychology and called for a unification, but many domains of cognitive experimental psychology continue to pay minimal heed to basic psychometric principles. The present article considers the lack of attention devoted to the reliability of measures extracted in a popular visual search task for studying putatively unconscious mental processes, contextual cuing, and the inferential fallacies that this neglect can cause. Two experiments (total N = 200) demonstrated that the reliability of contextual cuing and awareness measures can be increased by three manipulations designed to increase between-participant variability in search performance. At the same time, the data were subjected to a multiverse analysis, which found that specific data preprocessing pipelines result in more reliable estimates. Nevertheless, the reliability estimates remained too low for drawing firm conclusions from standard statistical techniques. Interpreting results from analyses based on individual differences, such as the typical low correlations between implicit and explicit measures, will be challenging so long as the underlying measures have poor reliability.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Mapping the Reliability Multiverse of Contextual Cuing |
Location: | United States |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1037/xlm0001410 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001410 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (Grant ES/P009522/1) awarded to David R. Shanks. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200048 |
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