PubMed · 6220116
Response tempo and separable--integral responding: evidence for an integral-to-separable processing sequence in visual perception.
Abstract
Three experiments were conducted to examine the relation between response tempo and separable-integral responding. A restricted classification paradigm, in which similarity-based (integral) and dimensionally based (separable) classifications were pitted against one another, was used with the dimensions of length and density (all experiments) and size and brightness (Experiment 3). The subjects were college students (Experiments 1 and 2) and kindergarten, second-, and fifth-grade children (Experiment 3). In all three experiments, rapid responding was associated with fewer dimensional and more similarity responses than was slow responding. This result held when response tempo was simply measured (Experiments 1 and 3) and when it was manipulated by the experimenter (Experiment 2). The results were interpreted to be consistent with models of dimensional processing in which holistic, integral processing precedes analytic dimensional processing.
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T B Ward. 1983. Response tempo and separable--integral responding: evidence for an integral-to-separable processing sequence in visual perception.. https://doi.org/10.1037/%2F0096-1523.9.1.103
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