As far as the difference between the gender-congruent and gender-incongruent nouns is concerned, it was impossible to investigate the effect in this experiment.
The conjunction of these features creates trials that are congruent, because both features converge on the same response, or incongruent because they indicate contrary responses.
In contrast, the incongruent word was rarely recalled, and many of the participants reported no conscious recollection of having seen the incongruent word.
Because of potential ear preference effects, the ear in which the strongly, weakly, or incongruent word-pair members were heard was randomized and counterbalanced across participants.
The maladaptive maternal representation composite consisted of the mean of the sum of negative, controlling, and incongruent maternal representation codes from the children's 11 narratives.
There were 48 trials of which half were congruent and half incongruent, presented in random order within the block.
Furthermore, previous studies have compared congruent and incongruent marking rather than congruent marking and a more natural neutral baseline.
In this version of the task patients with schizophrenia showed normal effects of congruent and incongruent primes.
