Kinesiology 4482A/B Midterm: Automation

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 4482A/B
• Professor: Eric Buckolz

Document Summary

You pick a task and then you assess its attentional demand by adding a probe task; Srt task is usually used as a probe task along with the task you initially chose to see if the first task takes attention away from the probe task (probe task must require attention to do well) Probe task performance should suffer or both task performance should suffer when performing them together. If attention demands are low automation is high. High attentional demands automation is low. Sometimes, attentional demands might not always been 0 or 100. Depending on the degree of attention, there an inverse degree of automation. Attention is always on for srt task (either attending to the stimulus, response, and etc) If you take attention away from a srt task you would not do well (srt task requires attention to do well)