Page No.107-111
Upagya Rai and Indramani L. Singh
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
The present study tries to examine the effect of personality differences on cued
vigilance task performance. Thirty two students of Banaras Hindu University
participated in this study, whose age varied form 19 to 24 years, with a mean
age of 21.4 year. All subjects received 3 min. task demonstration, a practice of
10 min. then final test session of 40 minutes. During the experimental session
cue was manipulated as valid (indicating correct location of target) and invalid
(wrong location of target). Target was a square of 3.3 cm and non-target was a
square of 2.8 cm. Subjects were classified as introverts and extraverts on
EPQ-R questionnaire. Performance in terms of speed and accuracy were
recorded. Results revealed that extraverts performed better than introverts during
a cued vigil task performance on accuracy measure. Furthermore, extraverts
showed more benefit on both valid and invalid cues than their counterpart i.e.
introverts. The obtained difference in cued vigil performance with regard to
personality type could be due to over arousal of introverts with cue.