The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (Irap) As a Response-Time and Event-Related-Potentials Methodology for Testing Natural Verbal Relations: A Preliminary Study
By D. Barnes-Holmes, E. Hayden, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ian Stewart. 2008
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The current article reports the first attempt to test the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP), as a group-based measure of natural verbal relations, using both response-latency and event-related potentials as dependent variables. On each trial of the IRAP, participants were presented with 1 of 2 attribute stimuli (“Pleasant” or “Unpleasant”), a positive (e.g., “Love”) or negative (e.g., “Murder”) target stimulus, and 2 relational terms, “Similar” and “Opposite,” as response options. Participants were required to respond as quickly and accurately as possible across blocks of trials, with half of the blocks requiring responses that were deemed consistent (e.g., Pleasant–Love–Similar), and the other half inconsistent (e.g., Pleasant–Love–Opposite), with natural verbal relations. Shorter mean latencies were predicted for consistent than for inconsistent blocks. Two separate experiments supported this prediction. Event-related potentials, gathered during the second experiment, also proved to be sensitive to the IRAP, yielding more negative waveforms for inconsistent relative to consistent blocks of trials. A theoretical interpretation of the IRAP effect is offered, and important directions for future research are highlighted.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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- A First Test of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure as a Measure of Self-Esteem: Irish Prisoner Groups and University Students (2009, background): “…and in particular those benefiting from the greater autonomy of trustee status tend to experience higher levels of self- 1 We assume that responding against incipient relational responses may occur at an unconscious or nondeliberative level (Barnes-Holmes et al., 2006; Barnes-Holmes et al., 2008).”
- The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: Exploring the Impact of Private Versus Public Contexts and the Response Latency Criterion on Pro-White and Anti-Black Stereotyping Among White Irish Individuals (2010, methodology): “The first study to employ the IRAP (Barnes-Holmes et al., 2008) involved presenting four words on each trial: an attribute stimulus (i.e., “Pleasant” or “Unpleasant”), a positively or negatively valenced target stimulus (e.g., “Caress” or “Hate”), and two relational terms (i.e., “Similar” and…”
- A Sketch of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Relational Elaboration and Coherence (REC) Model (2010, methodology): “The data indicated predictable 13 The first IRAP studies (e.g., Barnes-Holmes et al., 2008) did not employ the D IRAP algorithm because individual differences were not being measured.”