Misaligned Maps Lead to Predictable Errors

Perception ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt J Rossano ◽  
David H Warren
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Image ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Response Modes ◽  
Different Response ◽  
Alignment Errors

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the ability of subjects to make judgments of direction when using misaligned maps. Two hypotheses were proposed: (i) errors would fall into two lawful categories—mirror-image errors and alignment errors; (ii) the effect of map orientation would generalize to a different mode of responding than has been used in previous studies. Support for both hypotheses was obtained. The results are discussed in terms of the mental processes used to align maps to spaces, and the task demands required by different response modes.

Different response modes and cooperation modulations of blue‐light receptors in photomorphogenesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuning Wu ◽  
Qin Wang ◽  
Jing Qu ◽  
Wen Liu ◽  
Xuejuan Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blue Light ◽  
Response Modes ◽  
Different Response

Tomato seed germination: regulation of different response modes by phytochrome B2 and phytochrome A

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
KLAUS-J. APPENROTH ◽  
GABRIELE LENK ◽  
LYDIA GOLDAU ◽  
RAMESHWAR SHARMA
Keyword(s):  
Seed Germination ◽  
Phytochrome A ◽  
Tomato Seed ◽  
Response Modes ◽  
Different Response

scholarly journals The Use of Diaries in Sociological Research on Health Experience

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Response Modes ◽  
Different Response ◽  
Experience Of Illness

Diaries have been relatively neglected as a sociological research method. This paper highlights the value of diary research, drawing on the literature on auto/biographies and health service research as well as a qualitative study of need and demand for primary health care, which used diaries and linked in-depth interviews. In particular, data from the study are used to illustrate the role of the ‘diary-interview’ method in offering a means to ‘observe’ behaviour which is inaccessible to participant observation. Five key advantages of the diary-interview are discussed, namely the potential of the ‘diary-interview’ method to accommodate different response modes; the extent to which the method captured diarists’ own priorities; the importance of the research process in illuminating the contexts within which helpseeking took place; the role of diaries as both a record of and reflection on the experience of illness and the value of the diary-interview method as a means of understanding what is ‘taken for granted’ in accounts of health and illness.

scholarly journals Wireless Multiple Access and Analog Oscillation Analysis in Microgrids: A Prony Approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 932683
Author(s):  
Shuping Gong ◽  
Husheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Access ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Modal Characteristics ◽  
Oscillation Analysis ◽  
Access Scheme ◽  
Measurement Units ◽  
Response Modes ◽  
Different Response ◽  
Code Division Multiple ◽  
Time Division

A key challenge in smart grid is to monitor the system modal characteristics of disturbance over a microgrid for system stability and diagnosis. The measurements at different phasor measurement units (PMUs) need to be reported to a processing center. Therefore, a multiple access scheme for wireless transmission is necessary to collect the measurements from PMUs. An analog oscillation analysis is carried out without demodulating the received signal. Both schemes of time-division multiple access (TDMA) and code-division multiple access (CDMA) are discussed. In both schemes, the Prony-based algorithms using the received signal to estimate the system modal characteristics, including the eigenvalues of the linear system and the amplitudes of different response modes, are proposed and analyzed. Two countermeasures, max-min ratio measure (MMRM) and variance measure (VM), are also proposed to prevent possible attacks of false reports. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of Prony-based algorithms and the two countermeasures.

Cognitive Styles: Errors in Directional Judgments

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p3380 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Nori ◽  
Fiorella Giusberti
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Memory ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Judgment Task ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Alignment Effect ◽  
Alignment Errors

Previous studies on spatial memory have shown that, in judging direction, participants are more accurate and faster when a map is aligned with the perspective of the spatial layout they had learned (alignment effect). Rossano and Warren (1989 Perception18 215–229) have shown that when participants have to do a contra-aligned judgment they can either answer correctly, or make alignment or mirror-image errors. We think that the kind of response depends on the different way in which people acquire environmental knowledge: landmark, route, and survey. We hypothesise that landmark and route participants show alignment effects and make, respectively, alignment errors and mirror-image errors, whereas survey participants do not show an alignment effect. An experiment is reported in which participants performed three tasks in order to distinguish their cognitive style. We selected thirty landmark, thirty route, and twenty-eight survey participants. They were then submitted to directional judgment tasks to verify whether the alignment effect was present and to observe the kind of responses. The results revealed that survey participants did not show an alignment effect, and that the kind of errors could depend on the directional judgment task participants had to do, and not only on the cognitive style.

Nonresponse and Mode Effects in Self- and Interviewer-Administered Surveys

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonna Rae Atkeson ◽  
Alex N. Adams ◽  
R. Michael Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Mode Effects ◽  
Propensity Matching ◽  
Response Modes ◽  
Registered Voters ◽  
Different Response

We examine the quality of two probability-based polls, one interviewer administered (telephone) and one self-administered (Internet and mail mixed mode survey). The polls use the same sampling frame (registered voters) and the same questions. First, we examine the representativeness of both surveys using information known about the population, and although we find important differences between the two in terms of sampling and nonresponse bias, we also find that both surveys represent the underlying population despite low response rates. We also test for mode effects between surveys due to social desirability and how it influences nondifferentiation or satisficing. Using a variety of methods (t-tests, multivariate regression, and genetic propensity matching), we find evidence that the presence of an interviewer alters response patterns on ego-driven questions. The implications of our work are important, due to the increasing popularity of mixed mode surveys. Researchers need to be methodologically sensitive to these differences when analyzing surveys that allow for different response modes.

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