| dc.description.abstract | Reeve, Proctor, Weeks and Dornier (1992) demonstrated that the
Gestalt grouping principles could be used to influence performance
in the four-choice spatial-precuing task by enhancing the
organizational features of the stimulus and response sets. Reeve
et al. (1992), concluded that the most effective manipulations may
be limited to those involving the stimulus set. The two present
experiments attempted to enhance the organizational features of
the stimulus-response (S-R) sets by increasing the response
ensemble's salience through the use of textures placed according
to the Gestalt principles as used by Reeve et al. (1992). Both
experiments confirmed the previous findings of Reeve et al.,
reaffirming that the relative salience of stimulus set features is
a powerful determinant of the coding operations that occur during
the translation stage of information processing. Furthermore, the
results indicated that, although perhaps not as powerful,
manipulation of response set organization through the use of
textures can produce results consistent with those obtained with
the stimulus set manipulations. | |
