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2.The Effects of Performance Motivation: A Computational Exploration of a Dynamic Decision Making Task

by James D. Brooks, Nicholas Wilson, Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Abstract: Effects of performance motivation on task performance have been observed empirically . In this study, we explore one such result, the effects of assigned goals on performance of the well-studied Kanfer-Ackerman air traffic control task. We argue that the phenomenon observed in this task can be attributed to computationally expressible cognitive mechanisms defined by the CLARION cognitive architecture. In particular, we show that the performance variation between goal conditions can be explained by differences in explicit and implicit processing that are the result of external goal-setting.

Pages: 7-14

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