APA 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Think Aloud Protocol, Visual Search, Pattern Recognition
15 Oct 2018
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How do you become an expert: ericsson defines it as: the successful end result of an individual prolonged efforts to improve performance, motivational and external barriers. Expertise: what is an expert, 10,000 hours or 10 year rule of deliberate practice. Is highly structured activity engaged in with the specific goal of improving performances. It requires effort, has no momentary reward, and it is no inherently enjoyable. Expert-novice differences: pattern recognition, memory, tactical skills, problem solving and planning of strategies, anticipatory skills, visual search strategies, visual search strategies, perception and decision making, etc. Expert novice differences: pattern recognition memory, and tactical skills: simon and chase (1973, examined differences in chess. Memory task: view a game scenario for 5 seconds then recall the positions. Task setup: 5 middle game scenarios + 2 random, 5 end game scenarios + 2 random, random scenarios were nonsensical did not link to actual games of chess.
