The Acquisition of Robust and Flexible Cognitive Skills

Autor/inn/en	Taatgen, Niels A.; Huss, David; Dickison, Daniel; Anderson, John R.
Titel	The Acquisition of Robust and Flexible Cognitive Skills
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137 (2008) 3, S.548-565 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-3445
DOI	10.1037/0096-3445.137.3.548
Schlagwörter	Knowledge Representation; Models; Thinking Skills; Task Analysis; Goodness of Fit + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wissensrepräsentation; Analogiemodell; Denkfähigkeit; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	The authors introduce a model of skill acquisition that incorporates elements of both traditional models and models based on embedded cognition by striking a balance between top-down and bottom-up control. A knowledge representation is used in which pre- and postconditions are attached to actions. This model captures improved performance due to learning not only in terms of shorter solution times and lower error rates during the task but also in an increased flexibility to solve similar problems and robustness against unexpected events. In 3 experiments using a complex aviation task, the authors contrasted instructions that explicitly stated pre- and postconditions with conventional instructions that did not. The instructions with pre- and postconditions led to better and more robust performance than other instructions, especially on problems that required transfer. The parameters of the model were estimated to obtain a quantitative fit of the results of Experiment 1, which was then successfully used to predict the results of Experiments 2 and 3. (Contains 11 figures, 4 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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