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ELECTRODERMAL AND ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS IN CONCEPT IDENTIEICATION
Author(s) -
Pishkin Vladimir,
Shurley Jay T.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1968.tb02808.x
Subject(s) - psychology , arousal , set (abstract data type) , function (biology) , correlation , action (physics) , cognitive psychology , task (project management) , process (computing) , social psychology , developmental psychology , audiology , mathematics , computer science , medicine , physics , geometry , management , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , economics , biology , programming language , operating system
This study examined concept identification (CI) performance as a function of physiological arousal and physiological activity as a function of task complexity and expectation of success or failure. The development of an unsolvable set constituted stresses used to manipulate arousal. Results showed the following: (1) a positive correlation between CI errors and muscle action potential (MAP), (2) a negative correlation between spontaneous GSRs and MAP, (3) a greater number of spontaneous GSRs in low complexity‐solvable set CI as compared with high complexity problems, (4) progressively improving CI performance in low complexity‐solvable set problems, (5) increase in MAPs with high complexity‐unsolvable set CI. These findings were interpreted as indicating that MAP reflects internal disturbance associated with inability to process information while spontaneous GSRs reflect successful information intake.