A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF INFORMATION IN MAINTAINING EFFICIENCY ON AN AUDITORY MONITORING TASK

Abstract

IN AN EARLIER EXPERIMENT IT HAD BEEN REPORTED THAT RESPONSE TIME TO AUDITORY SIGNALS TENDS TO INCREASE AS A FUNCTION OF TIME ON TASK, BUT (over) that this increase may be inhibited by providing simulated knowledge of results. In this experiment it was apparently demonstrated that simulated knowledge of results was less effective in preventing such an increase in response time than was true knowledge of results, while a simple acknowledgement of responses had no apparent effect. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 16, 1960
Accession Number
AD0248884

Entities

People

  • E. Allyn Schmidt
  • Michel Loeb

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Auditory Signals
  • Efficiency

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Plasma Physics.