Visual and Acoustic Processing in Making Same-Different Judgments

1983 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-504
Author(s):  
Krystine Batcho Yaworsky

The effect of speed/accuracy instructions on preference for coding format was studied in a sequential same-different task. Visual coding was present in both the speed- and the accuracy-instruction conditions, but acoustic coding was present only in the speed condition, and only when that condition occurred before the accuracy condition. Results are discussed in relation to the minimal-processing principle and the temporal development view of coding preference.

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagen C. Flehmig ◽  
Michael B. Steinborn ◽  
Karl Westhoff ◽  
Robert Langner

Previous research suggests a relationship between neuroticism (N) and the speed-accuracy tradeoff in speeded performance: High-N individuals were observed performing less efficiently than low-N individuals and compensatorily overemphasizing response speed at the expense of accuracy. This study examined N-related performance differences in the serial mental addition and comparison task (SMACT) in 99 individuals, comparing several performance measures (i.e., response speed, accuracy, and variability), retest reliability, and practice effects. N was negatively correlated with mean reaction time but positively correlated with error percentage, indicating that high-N individuals tended to be faster but less accurate in their performance than low-N individuals. The strengthening of the relationship after practice demonstrated the reliability of the findings. There was, however, no relationship between N and distractibility (assessed via measures of reaction time variability). Our main findings are in line with the processing efficiency theory, extending the relationship between N and working style to sustained self-paced speeded mental addition.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olive Emil Wetter ◽  
Jürgen Wegge ◽  
Klaus Jonas ◽  
Klaus-Helmut Schmidt

In most work contexts, several performance goals coexist, and conflicts between them and trade-offs can occur. Our paper is the first to contrast a dual goal for speed and accuracy with a single goal for speed on the same task. The Sternberg paradigm (Experiment 1, n = 57) and the d2 test (Experiment 2, n = 19) were used as performance tasks. Speed measures and errors revealed in both experiments that dual as well as single goals increase performance by enhancing memory scanning. However, the single speed goal triggered a speed-accuracy trade-off, favoring speed over accuracy, whereas this was not the case with the dual goal. In difficult trials, dual goals slowed down scanning processes again so that errors could be prevented. This new finding is particularly relevant for security domains, where both aspects have to be managed simultaneously.


1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Lewandowski ◽  
David A. Kobus ◽  
Malia M. Flood

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sian L. Beilock ◽  
Michael Hoerger ◽  
Bennett I. Bertenthal ◽  
Thomas H. Carr
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1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffry S. Kellogg ◽  
Xiangen Hu ◽  
William Marks

1971 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
W. H. Blahd ◽  
M. A. Winston ◽  
G. T. Krishnamurthy ◽  
P. B. Thomas ◽  
E. Weiss

SummaryBecause of its speed, accuracy, and reproducibility, radioisotopic angiocardiography appears to be the method of choice for the diagnosis of pericardial effusion. Technetium-99m sulfide is preferable to 99mTc sodium pertechnetate in these studies for the following reasons: (1) its specific uptake by the liver aids both in patient positioning and in the accuracy of diagnosis; and (2), studies can be repeated within 15—20 minutes should there be equiment or technical error.


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