A typical example showing this law is the alternative choice task, in which subjects have to choose one from the two options that may be rewarded at different average rates.
O'Doherty et al., for example, reported stronger recruitment of the medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) upon gaining higher compared with smaller amounts of money in a two-alternative choice task [ 2].
The reduced information on the trade-offs of levels across choice task alternatives increases the risk of biased parameter estimates.
Completion times were superior in the titrating task, which produced modestly more systematic data than the fixed-alternatives task.
Viewing systematic data as more important than completion times, Experiment 2 (n = 153 college students) sought to reduce the amount of invalid datasets in the fixed-alternatives task, and compare amounts of nonsystematic data with the titrating task.
For many clinical procedures there are multiple alternative task sequences that can be performed.
In addition, in terms of workflow-level failure handling, the authors propose mechanisms such as alternative task (try a different implementation when available), workflow-level redundancy, and user-defined exceptions that are able to fallback to reliable failure handling.
Ryder returned to the boat and ordered the MTB to carry out its alternative task and torpedo the lock gates at the old entrance to the basin.
Given this alternative task interpretation the intuitive response would be perfectly valid.
For each subsequent trial, participants were presented with a cue, indicating that they should either 'stay' doing the same task or 'switch' to performing the alternative task.
The birds were thus more efficient in solving the task of their specialisation than they were in solving the alternative task.
