Auditory Threshold as a Function of Forced-Choice Technique, Feedback, and Motivation
- 1 February 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 34 (2) , 223-228
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1909173
Abstract
Shifts in the threshold of hearing were determined as a function of prolonged testing (12 sessions) with four experimental groups: forced‐choice‐feedback, no‐forced‐choice‐feedback, forced‐choice‐no‐feedback, and no‐forced‐choice‐no‐feedback. The forced‐choice technique was found to improve performance if used with immediate knowledge of results (feedback). Otherwise, thresholds obtained under a forced‐choice procedure were poorer than those obtained under no‐forced‐choice instructions. Even after 12 sessions, increasing the subjects' motivation by offers of monetary rewards resulted in a further decrease in threshold.Keywords
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