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SENSORY AND PREPARATORY FACTORS IN RESPONSE LATENCY: Simple reaction or compensatory interaction?
Author(s) -
Thrane Vidkunn Coucheron
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1960.tb01296.x
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , psychology , respondent , sensory system , differential effects , cognitive psychology , audiology , communication , medicine , political science , law
The so‐called simple reaction is viewed as a dynamically integrated organismic response, modifiable by sensory and preparatory factors and their interactions. The procedure used in presenting several variants of the focal stimulus regulates the specificity of the respondent's preknowledge of stimulus, and thereby the opportunity for interaction as suggested. Additional results confirm the previous finding that the differential effect of stimulus intensity is inversely related to the degree of preknowledge. The interaction is therefore considered to be of a compensatory nature.