The Effect of Different Response Modes in a Selective Attention Task.
Abstract
Subjects in each of four experiments performed a selective attention task using two different response modes, a speech mode and a manual (button-pressing) mode. All four experiments demonstrated that if analyzing a stimulus and producing a response required similar kinds of processing, the task was easy, while if analyzing the stimulus and producing the response required different kinds of processing, then the task was difficult. This compatibility relationship between stimuli and responses also affected the amount of interference subjects suffered. If identifying values on a stimulus dimension and responding required similar kinds of processing, then that stimulus dimension was hard to filter out when it was noncriterial. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 15, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA024995
Entities
People
- Hiram H. Brownell
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University