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STRATEGIES IN ROTARY PURSUIT TRACKING
Author(s) -
FRITH C. D.
Publication year - 1971
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.2044-8295.1971.tb02029.x
Subject(s) - psychology , matching (statistics) , tracking (education) , personality , social psychology , cognitive psychology , rotor (electric) , position (finance) , econometrics , statistics , mathematics , mechanical engineering , pedagogy , finance , engineering , economics
Ten measures were derived describing different aspects of the pursuit rotor performance of 30 subjects. These included variables indicating the shapes of the distribution of hit and miss lengths and also variables indicating the amount of rhythmicity present in performance. The relationship between the various measures suggested that performance could be described in terms of two factors. The first represented the level of attainment (total time on target). The second was independent of the first and represented different strategies of performance. The measures defining these strategies suggested that at one extreme people were concerned only with velocity‐matching, while at the other extreme they were concerned only with position‐matching. There was a strong relationship between strategy and personality, extraverts adopting velocity‐matching and introverts adopting position‐matching. There was no evidence that these differences in response style were due to the greater production of rest pauses by the extraverts.