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Activation (see Arousal)
Activity, extraneous, 141, 149, 150
interpolated, 142
waking-center, 228, 249
Alcohol, effects of, 188
Alerted performance, 7 - 9, 13 - 15, 20,
28, 52, 54, 57, 60, 61, 63, 66,
86, 119, 171, 172
Applied Psychology Research Unit,
72 - 87
Arithmetical reasoning test, 120
Arousal, 4 - 6, 10, 12, 16 - 20, 28, 30,
73, 94, 96, 100, 124, 148 - 150,
165, 172 - 174, 179, 184 - 198,
210, 228
Arousal-filter theory, 12, 14, 16, 17
Artificial signals, 144, 145, 155
Attention test, 30, 31, 120, 121
Audio-visual checking test, 121
Auditory threshold, 80
Behavior Interpretation Inventory,
120
Benzedrine, effects of, 262
Brick uses test, 120
Brightness discrimination, 7 - 9, 13 -
18, 29, 54, 172, 247
Central nervous system, 164
Circle reasoning test, 120
Coding test, 121
Communication between subjects, 24,
28, 29
Complex vigilance tasks, 108, 164,
199 - 216
Conditioning, 4, 70, 71, 83, 129, 209,
248

operant, 34 - 42, 52, 111, 208, 247 -
264

Confidence in response (see Criterion
for response)
Consistency of performance (see Re-
liability of performance)
Correlation between performances,
31 - 33, 35 - 40, 43 - 51, 53, 64,
65, 151, 171, 175, 233, 234,
244
Counting test, 121
Criteria of performance, 119, 227 - 246
Criterion for response, 52, 67, 79 - 81,
84 - 87, 187, 191, 192, 236, 246
Cue function, 5
Dark adaptation, 124
Daydreaming, 88, 94, 98
Decrement scores, 16
Definition, problems of, 227 - 246
Deprivation, sensory, 149, 184, 187
sleep, 184 - 189, 193

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Publication Information: Book Title: Vigilance: a Symposium. Contributors: Donald N. Buckner - editor, James J. McGrath - editor. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1963. Page Number: 265.
    
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