Recognition-Primed Decision Strategies

Abstract

For this research, the goal of the first year was to expand our understanding of recognitional decision making specifically in terms of how situation assessments are communicated. Three studies were proposed. We have completed two of them and have initiated the third. In addition, we have started a project originally planned for year 2. The projects completed were a literature review in the area of situation assessment and a multidimensional scaling experiment of expert and novice firefighters. This experiment was one of the first to use situations as stimuli, rather than simple cues as words. The results suggest that experienced fireground commanders do not have static schemata for firefighting situations; there was low consistency between ratings made during different sessions. In additions, the importance ratings for concepts were influenced by the goal context. Keywords: Decision making, Command and control, Environment, Expert, Training.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA226887

Entities

People

  • Beth Crandall
  • Gary A. Klein

Organizations

  • Klein Associates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Consciousness
  • Information Processing
  • Literature
  • Literature Surveys
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Teamwork
  • Transport Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Software Engineering
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control