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Response Inhibition Theory

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Response inhibition (RI) and interference control (IC) are two of the most important aspects in the scientific field that are being paid attention to due to their part in the development of behavioural and cognitive processes of an individual. RI is a main component of the Executive Functions (EFs). RI is literally one’s choice to ignore irrelevant stimuli that diminish his or her concentration from performing a specific achievement or task and focus on the relevant stimuli. When individuals can inhibit their behavioural responses to these stimuli, they will be able choose the right behaviour that allows them to complete their goals. The response inhibition theory suggests that inhibition is constrained in the prefrontal lobes (Bokura, Yamaguchi, …show more content…

Three conditions were looked at in this research study, congruent, incongruent and neutral. In the congruent condition, participants could rely on reading processes to enable fast and precise responding. In the incongruent condition, participants were supposed to rely more on colour naming processes and reduce the reading words process. The Stroop task had shown that participants had made more errors in the incongruent trials than the congruent trials. Similarly, it also showed that the time that they took to respond was longer for incongruent trials than congruent trials. The current study also proposes the same hypotheses. It aims to prove that both the error rates and reaction time will be greater for incongruent trials than the congruent …show more content…

Eriksen and Eriksen (1974) had made use of target letters that were flanked by noise letters by five different conditions to test the RTs of subjects. However, the cueing effect was not included in the experiment. This was changed by Gehring et al. (1992). He and his fellow researches had made changes to the experiment such that before each flanker trial, a cue will be displayed. There were two types of cues given, a correct cue and an incorrect cue. It was found that for incorrect cues, participants took a longer time to react and had made more errors than the correct cues. This current study predicts like the previous study that the RT and error rates will be higher for incorrect cues than the correct

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