Figure 1.

Compatible Association Trials. Temporal layout of 80 compatible trials (figure shows four test trials) or implicit associations toward alcohol use. On compatible trials, individuals are expected to react faster when categorizing strongly associated concepts that share a response key. This should be fairly easy to do for someone with past experience with alcohol. Temporal jitter was used in the presentation of the fixation with onset timing ranging from 1. 0 to 4.5 seconds, with a mean exposure of 2 seconds, followed by stimuli presentation. Maximum exposure of test stimuli was for 2 seconds. After a participant pressed a response key, the screen would go blank for the remainder of the 2 seconds. Total trial time ranged from 3.0 to 6.5 seconds