Strategy changes after errors improve performance

Frontiers in Psychology

Charlotte eDesmet¹  Liesbet eVan der Borght¹  Wim eNotebaert¹ 

[1] Ghent University;

关键词: cognitive control;    post-error slowing;    Mental arithmetic;    Strategy-use;    post-error accuracy increase;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02051

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The observation that performance does not improve following errors contradicts the traditional view on error monitoring (Fiehler, Ullsperger, & von Cramon, 2005; Notebaert & Verguts, 2011; Núñez Castellar, Kühn, Fias, & Notebaert, 2010).However, recent findings suggest that typical laboratory tasks provided us with a narrow window on error monitoring (Desmet et al., 2012; Jentzsch & Dudschig, 2009). In this study we investigated strategy-use after errors in a mental arithmetic task. In line with our hypothesis, this more complex task did show increased performance after errors. More specifically, switching to a different strategy after an error resulted in improved performance, while repeating the same strategy resulted in worse performance. These results show that in more ecological valid tasks, post-error behavioural improvement can be observed.

【 授权许可】

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