Theoretical Considerations and Exploratory Investigation of 'Set' as Response Restriction

摘要

An analysis of message reception in the process of communication suggests that the various perceptual stimuli composing the messages lead to sequences or chains of dis¬criminatory responses. Stimulus ambiguity from various sources (e.g., distortion, impoverishment, or clutter) gives rise to response uncertainty on the part of the operator, hence to errors of behavior.nThe effects of these accuracy of stimulus identification. The effects of these two types of setting operations were independent, the only evidence for any kind of interaction being the finding that correct identification was contingent upon a prior correct location. This last finding supports the assumption of response chaining.