Affiliation:
1. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2. State University of New York—Oswego, Oswego, New York
Abstract
The component fluency hypothesis suggests that practicing component skills can increase the fluency of target task performance. Three experiments examined boundary conditions for this hypothesis. College students practiced individual Boolean functions, then solved transfer problems using these functions. In Experiment 1, varying the amount of component practice had no detectable effect on problem solving fluency. In Experiment 2, subjects had 480 trials of component practice, with exposure to the target task after 0, 240, or 480 trials. A fourth group had 192 trials of component practice. The results partially replicated Experiment 1: exposure to the target context after 240 trials produced the best final performance. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2, using a more sensitive target task and an additional group exposed to the target task after 120 trials of component practice. Results confirmed the importance of target task exposure. These findings suggest limits on the component fluency hypothesis.
Subject
Behavioral Neuroscience,Applied Psychology,Human Factors and Ergonomics
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