Research Quarterly American Association for Health Physical Education and Recreation · 1963 · 44 citations · 3 references
Social SciencesBehavioral SciencesPsychologyCognitive PsychologyExperimental PsychologyHuman PerformanceHuman ErrorHuman ReliabilityKnowledge Of PerformanceKnowledge Of ResultsReaction TimeAbsolute Refractory PeriodAnticipation In Reaction TimeConcurrent Knowledge Of ResultsMean Absolute ErrorMean Absolute Error Analysis
Abstract The purpose of this study was to obtain further evidence concerning human performance in a particular type of anticipation task commonly termed the transit reaction. It was found that: (a) Performance can be exceptionally accurate; (b) the absolute error for performance with knowledge of results was significantly smaller than the error for performance without knowledge of results; (c) a small systematic constant error was found to persist for performance with and without knowledge of results; (d) both absolute and constant errors increased with the introduction of catch trials; (e) the correlation coefficients (.86—.54) suggested that the measures were at least modestly reliable; and (f) the estimated refractory period was 149 msec.
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