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SEQUENTIAL ERRORS IN A TIME‐SHARING TASK
Author(s) -
TUNE G. S.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1964.tb00926.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychology , set (abstract data type) , short term memory , function (biology) , term (time) , relation (database) , cognitive psychology , simple (philosophy) , statistics , working memory , social psychology , cognition , computer science , data mining , neuroscience , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology , economics , programming language , philosophy , physics , mathematics , management , epistemology
An experiment is described in which subjects were required to maintain a set pattern of responses while simultaneously engaged in a monitoring task. The results showed that selective deterioration in performance took place which was demonstrable only by means of a sequential analysis of responses and not by a simple count of the errors made. The results are discussed in relation to a concept of performance decrement which proposes that ‘regression’ through the various levels at which a task is organized is a function of the capacity of short‐term memory.