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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76164 |
| Contributors | SCHILLING, ROBERT F., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 157 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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