Implications of Control in Routine Skilled Performance
Open Access
Author:
Aderhold, Leslie A.
Graduate Program:
Psychology
Degree:
Master of Science
Document Type:
Master Thesis
Date of Defense:
May 12, 2009
Committee Members:
Richard Alan Carlson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor Richard Alan Carlson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor William Ray, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor Rick Owen Gilmore, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keywords:
skilled performance routine skill control
Abstract:
This thesis describes a series of experiments that were conducted to examine the influence of certain types of external actions and certain forms of goal criteria on routine skilled performance. Two preliminary experiments and three main experiments using an event counting task demonstrated that when external actions were made to control the timing and appearance of environmental information required for one-to-one binding with internal information, this binding
became less or more successful under different control conditions. The type of goal criterion used in assessing task completion also influenced performance and suggested that internal forms of a goal criterion may be more beneficial to routine
performance than external forms that necessitate monitoring for environmental events.
