1983 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 69-73
Two experiments were performed to compare the pursuit and the compensatory tracking behavior with either a proportional or an integral control system. The first experiment investigated the effects of the target characteristics on each behavior. It was found that while with the proportional control system the superiority of the pursuit over the compensatory tracking behavior became greater with increasing target frequencies, with the integral control system the two types of tracking behavior were not significantly different in scores for any target conditions. The second experiment investigated the learning characteristics and the transfer effects of each behavior. It was observed that while with the proportional control system the subjects who transferred from the compensatory to the pursuit tracking behavior had lower error scores on transfer trials than the subjects transferred in the reverse order, with the integral control system error scores on transfer trials increased when the subjects transferred to the behavior differring from the learning behavior. These results were discussed in terms of the difference of the optimal response patterns of these control systems.
