The Effects of Motivation Level and Task Difficulty on Performance on a Vigilance Task

<p>Although many variables affecting vigilance behavior have been identified, there has not been substantial agreement on the importance of these variables as contributors either to performance decrements often found in laboratory research or to performance levels in industrial inspection tasks. Two variables of presumed importance are level of motivation and task difficulty. The purpose of the present experiment was to assess the main and interactive effects of these variables on performance on a task which approximated more closely an industrial inspection task than have the bulk of traditional vigilance studies.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

1970

Author dc:creator

• Johnston, Donald C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Philip Tolin
• Max Zwanziger
• Donald R. Shupe

• psychology
• motivation
• vigilance
• Cognition and Perception

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1430

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-2455