CONTROL OF HUMAN VIGILANCE BY CONCURRENT SCHEDULES
- 1 July 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 12 (4), 591-600
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1969.12-591
Abstract
Twenty four subjects were studied for ten 1-hr sessions to determine whether the human observer's visual monitoring of individual meters in a complex display can be differentially controlled by concurrent scheduling of signals. Subjects were divided into two main groups of 12 each. One group was given fixed-interval, variable-interval, and differential-reinforcement-of-low-rates schedules. The second group was given fixed-interval, fixed-ratio, and differential-reinforcement-of-low-rates schedules. Test subjects were instructed only to detect as many signals as possible. Results indicated that observing responses to the individual meters corresponded to the temporal patterns known to be associated with the schedules for the group given fixed-ratio instead of variable-interval as a component schedule. The group given the variable-interval schedule in the three-schedule combination tended to exhibit the same pattern of viewing across each of the three meters during any given session. However, subsequent testing was performed on two more subjects over 64 sessions, by adding initial feedback of signal detection results, and instructions concerning schedule construction. These results indicated that with knowledge of schedule construction and initial feedback of detection data, differentiated responding can be maintained efficiently over long periods of time by the combination including fixed-interval, variable-interval, and differential-reinforcement-of-low-rates schedules.Keywords
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