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Peer reviewedGilden, David L.; Wilson, Stephanie Gray – Cognitive Psychology, 1995
Signal detection experiments with 21 college students suggest that streakiness is a property of auditory and visual discrimination in that correct and incorrect responses have a positive sequential dependency. Monte-Carlo simulations of observed data sequences suggest that streaky performance results from wavelike variations in perceptual and…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, College Students, Higher Education
Download full textEdmonds, Ed M. – 1969
The purpose of the two experiments was to assess the effects of two levels of stimulus redundancy and three levels of irrelevant visual stimulation on performance in a successive discrimination task and a reproduction task. The results indicate that increases in redundancy facilitated performance in the reproduction task but had no appreciable…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
