Perseveration on cognitive strategies.
To acquire and process information, performers can frequently rely on both internal and extended cognitive strategies. However, after becoming acquainted with two strategies, performers in previous studies exhibited a pronounced behavioral preference for just one strategy, which we refer to as perse...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 459 - 476 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=176651069&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 176651069 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2024 vid: 52 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 176651069 10.3758/s13421-023-01475-7 ppf: 459 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: Perseveration on cognitive strategies. aug: au: Weis, Patrick P. Kunde, Wilfried affil: https://ror.org/00fbnyb24 Department of Psychology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Psychologie III, Röntgenring 11, D-97070, Würzburg, Germany su: Task performance Problem solving Cognition Research funding Prompts (Psychology) sug: subj: Task performance Problem solving Cognition Research funding Prompts (Psychology) keyword: Cognitive offloading Cognitive strategy selection Perseveration Cognitive offloading Cognitive strategy selection Perseveration ab: To acquire and process information, performers can frequently rely on both internal and extended cognitive strategies. However, after becoming acquainted with two strategies, performers in previous studies exhibited a pronounced behavioral preference for just one strategy, which we refer to as perseveration. What is the origin of such perseveration? Previous research suggests that a prime reason for cognitive strategy choice is performance: Perseveration could reflect the preference for a superior strategy as determined by accurately monitoring each strategy's performance. However, following our preregistered hypotheses, we conjectured that perseveration persisted even if the available strategies featured similar performances. Such persisting perseveration could be reasonable if costs related to decision making, performance monitoring, and strategy switching would be additionally taken into account on top of isolated strategy performances. Here, we used a calibration procedure to equalize performances of strategies as far as possible and tested whether perseveration persisted. In Experiment 1, performance adjustment of strategies succeeded in equating accuracy but not speed. Many participants perseverated on the faster strategy. In Experiment 2, calibration succeeded regarding both accuracy and speed. No substantial perseveration was detected, and residual perseveration was conceivably related to metacognitive performance evaluations. We conclude that perseveration on cognitive strategies is frequently rooted in performance: Performers willingly use multiple strategies for the same task if performance differences appear sufficiently small. Surprisingly, other possible reasons for perseveration like effort or switch cost avoidance, mental challenge seeking, satisficing, or episodic retrieval of previous stimulus-strategy-bindings, were less relevant in the present study. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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