Regulating mind-wandering and sustained attention with goal-setting, feedback, and incentives
| dc.contributor.advisor | Unsworth, Nash | |
| dc.contributor.author | Robison, Matthew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-06T21:53:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-06T21:53:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-09-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present set of experiments investigated three potential means of regulating mind-wandering and sustained attention: goals, feedback, and incentives. The experiments drew up goal-setting theory from industrial/organizational psychology, theories of vigilance and sustained attention, and recent experimental work examining mind-wandering and sustained attention. Experiment 1 investigated the role of goal-difficulty and goal-specificity. Providing a difficult goal for participants only improved sustained attention compared to a condition with no specific goal. Experiment 2 investigated the role of feedback in isolation and in combination with goals. Feedback improved sustained attention and reduced mind-wandering, but it did so regardless of whether or not the feedback was tied to a specific goal. Experiment 3 investigated how two different incentives – money and early release from the experiment – affected sustained attention and mind-wandering. The incentives had no effect on task performance, but participants in the early release condition reported being more motivated, more alert, and mind-wandered less throughout the task. I discuss the results of the experiments in light of predictions made by goal-setting theory as well as theories of vigilance and sustained attention. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23712 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | |
| dc.subject | Incentives | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mind-wandering | en_US |
| dc.subject | Motivation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sustained attention | en_US |
| dc.title | Regulating mind-wandering and sustained attention with goal-setting, feedback, and incentives | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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