Data for the study "Should we stop thinking about inhibition? Searching for individual and age differences in inhibition as a psychometric construct" from Rey-Mermet, Gade, and Oberauer. For each participant and each task, a data file was created. These data are in white-space separated text format. The tasks were: color Stroop, number Stroop, arrow flanker, letter flanker, Simon, antisaccade, stop signal, global, local, positive and negative compatibilty tasks, as well as the task assessing n-2 repetition cost. Two tasks were removed from the structure equation modeling for the following reasons: 1. The *global* task was only introduced in order to induce the global precedence effect. 2. The task assessing *n-2 repetition cost* had low reliability estimates. For the sake of anonimity, data from the questionnaires are not reported. <br><br> Please find below the column names and their explanation for the file `mergeddata.txt`: - `subj` = participant's number - `age` = participant's age (removed for the sake of anonymity) - `age_group` = young vs. older - counterbalancing_battery = type of counterbalancing regarding the two task orders used - `counterbalancing` = type of counterbalancing for the stimulus exemplars in the color and number Stroop tasks - `crit_all` = trimming criterium - Missing data were kept and the structural equation modeling was run with case-wise maximum likelihood. - `crit_vs` = trimming criterium - For each participant and each RT-based task, if the mean accuracy of a block was considered as smaller than the mean accuracy of the other participants, the block was removed from the dataset. If two blocks or more were removed, the task was removed from the dataset. If a task was missing, the participant was removed from the dataset. - `crit_val` = trimming criterium - For each participant and each RT-based task, if the mean accuracy of a block was smaller than 75% for tasks with two response keys and 50% for tasks with four response keys, the block was removed from the dataset. If two blocks or more were removed, the task was removed from the dataset. If a task was missing, the participant was removed from the dataset. - `crit_sd` = trimming criterium - For each participant and each RT-based task, if the mean accuracy of a block was smaller than 2.5 SD than the corresponding mean accuracy averaged across all participants, the block was removed from the dataset. If two blocks or more were removed, the task was removed from the dataset. If a task was missing, the participant was removed from the dataset. - `task` = type of task (NB: short = positive-compatibility task; long = negative-compatibility task) - `block` = block number - `stimulus` = stimulus exemplar presented in the trial - `trial` = trial number - `ssd` = stop-signal delay (only relevant for the stop-signal task) - `congruency` = type of trials (antisaccade task: antisaccade and prosaccade; task measuring n-2 repetition cost: n2repetition and n2switch; stop-signal task: nogo, go, and onlygo; for the remaining tasks: incongruent, congruent, and neutral) - `corr` = accuracy (1 = correct response; 0 = false response; 99 = trial to be removed) - `rt` = reaction time (in ms)