Task performance errors affect voluntary task choices

Abstract: Humans are usually engaged with a task but frequently face the decision to remain with their current task, or to switch to another task. Recent research suggested that this decision may be influenced by the cognitive processes involved in task performance preceding this decision—linking task performance and task selection. One critical performance measure is the commission of errors. However, little empirical evidence has thus far been collected addressing whether and how error commissions influence voluntary task choices. Thus, this thesis seeks to shed more light on the influence of task performance errors on voluntary task choices. Chapter 1 provides an overview of several lines of research on cognitive processes involved in task performance and task selection. Chapter 2 considers the question whether task performance errors affect voluntary task choices. We found that participants probability to switch tasks was influenced by error probabilities of both tasks as well as errors on the previous trial. Chapter 3 examines the influence of performance errors on voluntary task choices in the presents of varying rewards which could be gained for task selection, not performance. We found that task performance errors still affected voluntary task choices, even though task selection were rewarded, and task performance was not. The two studies presented in Chapter 2 & 3 involve the development of novel voluntary task switching paradigms, respectively. Chapter 4 presents and tests a new plugin for web-based research which allows researcher to develop even further voluntary task switching paradigms on the interplay between task performance errors and task selection, as this task expands the possibilities on dynamically varying environmental conditions to motivate voluntary task choices. Chapter 5 discusses these findings in view of cognitive processes involved in task performance errors and recent theoretical and modeling work linking task performance and task selection. Finally, Chapter 5 points towards future directions

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Universität Freiburg, Dissertation, 2022

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: Aufgabenwechsel ; Kognition

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Freiburg
• (wer): Universität
• (wann): 2022
• Urheber: Spitzer, Markus Wolfgang Hermann
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Kiesel, Andrea ; Thomaschke, Roland ; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Allgemeine Psychologie ; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Wirtschafts- und Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.6094/UNIFR/229272
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2292726
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.