USE OF CUES IN VISUAL PERIPHERY UNDER CONDITIONS OF AROUSAL

Evidence from various experiments indicates that under conditions of arousal, Ss are less attentive to information occurring in the visual periphery. It is not clear whether these findings resulted from the fact that the information presented to S's visual periphery was irrelevant to his primary task or from the fact that aroused Ss are less sensitive to peripheral visual information of any kind. In this study, with undergraduates, the peripheral visual cues were task relevant. Aroused Ss showed no reduction in range of cue use, and findings indicate that they used the peripheral visual cues to a significantly greater degree than did nonaroused Ss. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.