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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
Volume 137, Issue 3, Pages 548-565Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.3.548
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control; cognitive modeling; skill acquisition; learning from instructions; embedded cognition
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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.
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