Abstract
To examine the influence of verbal labels on response selection, the association between the verbal labels and the task set was manipulated. In the task-set group, different response sets were used for odd-even and large-small judgments, and the participants performed either judgment task depending on the cue. In the response-set group, the judgments to be made remained unchanged as either odd or even judgments. However, the participants were instructed two response-sets and performed the task using one of the response sets depending on the cue.
The results showed that when repeating the same set as the previous trial, the task-set group tended to make faster responses than the response-set group. This suggested that the response-set group, which was less likely to use verbal labels such as "odd-even" and "large and small," was more susceptible to influence from competing response sets, even when the response set was repeated.
