Effects of concurrent verbalization on a time-critical, dynamic decision-making task

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Effects of concurrent verbalization on a time-critical, dynamic decision-making task

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Title: Effects of concurrent verbalization on a time-critical, dynamic decision-making task
Author(s): Dickson, Janet M.; McLennan, Jim; Omodei, Mary M.
Abstract: The authors investigated the effects of concurrent verbalization on students' performance on a time-critical, dynamic decision-making task. After training on Fire Chief (a computer microworld that simulates fighting a forest fire; M. M. Omodei & A. J. Wearing, 1993a), 60 research participants were allocated randomly to 1 of 3 experimental conditions: silence, associative verbalization, or procedural verbalization. Participants who verbalized the bases of their decisions (procedural verbalization) performed significantly worse on average than participants in the silence condition. There was a small but non-significant decrement in the performance of participants who verbalized thoughts other than the bases of their decisions while performing the task (associative verbalization). Their average level was between the levels of participants in the silence and procedural-verbalization conditions.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Source: Journal of general psychology, Vol. 127, no. 2 (Apr. 2000), pp. 217-228
Publication year: 2000
Keyword(s): Cognition; Decision making; Students -- Attitudes
Publisher: Heldref Publications
Format: pp. 217-228
ISSN: 0022-1309
Publisher URL: http://www.heldref.org/jgeneralp.php
Peer reviewed