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Studia Psychologica Vol.52, No.1, p.15-22, 2010

Title: THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL WORKLOAD ON PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIONS IN WORD ASSOCIATION TEST IN HEALTHY ADULTS
Author: Jiří LUKAVSKÝ

Abstract: The project focuses on physiological reactions during the Word Association Test (WAT). The author tests the originally proposed hypothesis (Šlechta, 2002b) about separable cognitive and emotional workload, where the cognitive workload is manifested in reaction times (RT) and the emotional workload in physiological reactions (i.e., electrodermal activity). The hypotheses were tested on a sample of young healthy adults (N = 80), with a protocol consisting of 40 Czech nouns. The stimuli varied in their level of concreteness and their emotional valence. During the experiment RTs, electrodermal activity (EDA) and pupillary responses (PR) were measured. It was found that the correlations of all observed parameters were low. In agreement with the original hypotheses it was found that the cognitive workload is manifested most in RTs, and negative stimuli elicit the highest EDA reactions, but the two effects could not be separated. In fact the cognitive workload was manifested significantly in the physiological parameters as well. Therefore in possible clinical applications, where emotional reactions are of interest, it is necessary to take the possible cognitive workload into account in preparing the stimuli protocol.

Keywords: Word Association Test, electrodermal activity, pupillary activity
Year: 2010, Volume: 52, Issue: 1 Page From: 15, Page To: 22

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