Control Device Manipulative Behavior, Arousal and Performance during a Compensatory Tracking Task.

Abstract

This study examined the relationships between control activity, performance and arousal. Experimental non-task load (arousal) manipulations failed to generate significant performance effects, but did reliably affect at least one of three control-activity measures employed, namely, integrated absolute control displacement, IACD. The results offer support for a progression hypothesis. This hypothesis asserts that trends in control activity demonstrated at any given level of performance during skill development are paralleled by trends exhibited as arousal or, at least, non-task stimulation increases. Since performance failed to demonstrate a decrement, a proposed set of related regression hypotheses could not be tested. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA133921

Entities

People

  • Hector Michael Acosta

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Control Systems
  • Data Science
  • Frequency
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Information Science
  • Motor Skills
  • New Mexico
  • Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Stress (Physiology)

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.