Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 27-08, Section: B, page: 2890. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1966.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 27-09, Section: B, page: 3320. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1966.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 18-06, page: 2231. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1958.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-05, page: 1804. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1962.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 25-12, page: 7386. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1964.

In laboratory experiments, pigeons were required to work to gain access to food. The work was divided into two components. The first component required the pigeon to press on a foot treadle to turn on a patch stimulus and, thus, enter a patch. In the patch the pigeon had to search for individual food items by pressing on a second treadle. High- and low-value items were available. Cost refers to the number of treadle presses required to enter a patch (entry cost) or to produce a food item (search cost). When entry cost was increased (Experiments 1 and 2) pigeons entered fewer patches but produced more trials in each, and the rate of eating increased. Entry cost affected reactivity to food items only on the first trial of a patch. The pigeons accepted few of the low-value items when search cost was low, but became less selective as search cost was increased (Experiments 3 and 4). However, changes in reactivity to the food items and the rate of eating were confined to patches in which the search cost was increased. Experiment 5 determined that the signalling function of food-stimuli was not altered by search cost. Experiment 6 found that the patch-stimuli encoded information about the search cost. The primary finding in these experiments was that much of the feeding behavior of pigeons is controlled by the local cost of obtaining a food item rather than on an average cost computed over several items or patches. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: B, page: 3247. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.

Principles of automaticity proposed by Shiffrin and Schneider (1977) and Schneider (1985) were applied to the development of laboratory-based skill development for pistol marksmanship in an extended training program. Pivotal to the development of automaticity are consistent mapping (CM) conditions in which visual stimulus targets are not interchanged with distractors nor distractors with targets. Varied mapping (VM) conditions, believed to inhibit automaticity, involve the use of target stimuli as distractors on some trials. / Two groups of male undergraduates received microprocessor-based training fractioned into component parts designed to promote the development of controlled processing in one group (VM) and automatic detection in the other (CM). Correct and incorrect trigger responses to briefly displayed visual targets as well as response latencies were evaluated. The CM and VM conditions showed only small differences in performance in the computer simulation training with some indication of superior performance in the CM condition. / The transfer-of-training performances of the microprocessor-trained groups were compared with each other and to an all male group that received an equal amount of training on the electronic arcade game which served as the criterion task for all three conditions. Performance on the criterion task indicated that the Arcade and CM subjects performed similarly while the VM subjects appeared to reflect some negative transfer of skills that resulted in lower machine-scored skill levels attained and a lower overall number of points attained on the game. In latter phases of training, the performance of the arcade trained subjects was slightly superior to either the CM or VM subjects. In the final six games of the criterion task, the CM and Arcade conditions performed similarly and made fewer errors than the VM subjects. / The results of this study suggest that application of principles of automaticity to complex skill training require particular attention to whole task decomposition as well as to the conditions necessary for the development of automaticity as described by Shiffrin and Schneider (1977) and others. Difficulty in controlling subject strategies both in the computer-based simulator and the electronic arcade also may have obscured potential differences in group performance. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-09, Section: B, page: 2808. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-02, Section: B, page: 0797. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1968.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-11, Section: B, page: 5268. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: B, page: 5651. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.