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Acta Psychologica

Volume 39, Issue 1, February 1975, Pages 43-50
Acta Psychologica

Simple reaction time with very small imperative- stimulus probabilities

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Abstract

The simple reaction time was studied as a function of the probability of the delivery of the imperative stimulus which was or was not (randomly) delivered 1 sec after the warning signal. The probability of the imperative stimulus was varied much more extensively than in any of the previous studies; thus, the response speed with very small probabilities was of especial interest. The results obtained with five subjects suggested a quadratic relationship between the probability and the reaction time so that the latter appeared to be relatively independent of the former with very small probabilities.

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