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The Opposites Task: Using General Rules to Test Cognitive Flexibility in Preschoolers
Authors:Sara T Baker  Ori Friedman  Alan M Leslie
Institution:1. University of Bristol , England s.baker@bristol.ac.uk;3. University of Waterloo , Ontario, Canada;4. Rutgers University ,
Abstract:Executive functions play an important role in cognitive development, and during the preschool years especially, children's performance is limited in tasks that demand flexibility in their behavior. We asked whether preschoolers would exhibit limitations when they are required to apply a general rule in the context of novel stimuli on every trial (the “opposites” task). Two types of inhibitory processing were measured: response interference (resistance to interference from a competing response) and proactive interference (resistance to interference from a previously relevant rule). Group data show 3-year-olds have difficulty inhibiting prepotent tendencies under these conditions, whereas 5-year-olds’ accuracy is near ceiling in the task.
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