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Talk_ESCoP2022_Rey-Mermet
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The issue in attentional-control research is not the reliability, but the validity : Talk presented at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Lille. France.

UniDistance Suisse

  • 2022
Higher cognitive functions
attentional control
inhibition
executive functions
reliability
validity
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English Attentional control refers to our ability to maintain and implement a goal and goal-relevant information when facing distraction. The validity of attentional control has been questioned because of the difficulty of establishing this construct at the latent-variable level. This validity issue has been assumed to result from the low reliability of the attentional-control measures. In turn, this low reliability has been explained by the use of difference scores. The goal of the present talk is to highlight that even when the difference scores showed acceptable to good split-half reliability estimates (i.e., .61-.88), it was still difficult to establish attentional control at the latent-variable level. Moreover, bypassing difference scores by using a bifactor modeling approach with highly reliable measures (i.e., .94-.99) results in the same difficulty. Therefore, the validity issue in attentional-control research results neither from the use of difference scores nor from their low reliability.
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