Children’s Alcohol Cognitions Prior to Drinking onset: Discrepant Patterns from Implicit and Explicit Measures

Children’s Alcohol Cognitions Prior to Drinking Onset: Discrepant Patterns from Implicit and Explicit Measures

1. The reason for conducting these experiments was because the few studies that have been done on implicit alcohol cognition in children produced conflicting results between different age groups.

2. To test explicit measures participants were given a questionnaire that asked questions related to how the participants felt about alcohol and what they expected to happen in certain outcomes when alcohol was involved. To test implicit measure participants were give two implicit association tests. The tests were presented as a computer game that would show pictures or present words and the participants would press buttons to sort the pictures or words.

3. The IV in this experiment is the different implicit associations and self-tests that were given. The DV in this experiment is the measurement of the positive or negative reactions to alcohol. Scientists used latencies to measure the reactions.

4. To ensure that the participants’ data was valid researchers eliminated the potential chance of response variance by always giving the participants the implicit tests first and then the explicit tests. Also, because few related studies have tested children the tests were given in different sequences between two different groups.

5. Due to this being a published study most confounding variables were controlled for, but gender was not included in this study because it did not relate to any of the dependent measures.

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