Development of a Computer Simulation for Assessing Decision-Making Style Using Cognitive Complexity Theory

Abstract

This report documents the design and development of a Managerial Assessment and Training Simulation System (MATSS). The MATSS is a computer-based simulation of a hypothetical military/political crisis in Yugoslavia in 1988. Participants act in the simulation to cope with the dilemma as the computer collects real-time data on their decision-making strategy. Measures of performance are based on interactive complexity theory, which is concerned with the structure rather than the content of decision making.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA172064

Entities

People

  • Eleanor L. Criswell
  • Kenneth W. Unger
  • Paul Van Rijn
  • Robert W. Swezey
  • Siegfried Streufert

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Information Processing
  • Literature Surveys
  • Personality
  • Psychological Theory
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Test Beds
  • Time Compression
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.