Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Cognitive flexibility and adaptability to environmental changes in dynamic complex problem-solving tasks.

José Cañas1, José F Quesada, Adoración Antolí

  • 1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Campus de Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain. delagado@goliat.ugr.es

Ergonomics
|May 15, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Even skilled individuals make errors in complex problem-solving. This study suggests errors occur when environmental changes are relevant to the specific problem-solving strategy used, not just unexpected conditions.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Preserved and non-preserved social attentional processes in Autism and developmental language disorder at early ages.

Scientific reports·2026
Same author

Telehealth diagnostic assessment for autism and developmental language disorders: A systematic review.

Acta psychologica·2026
Same author

Using explainable machine learning and eye-tracking for diagnosing autism spectrum and developmental language disorders in social attention tasks.

Frontiers in neuroscience·2025
Same author

Hearing What You Can't See: Influence of Face Masks on Speech Perception and Eye Movement by Adults With Hearing Loss.

Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR·2024
Same author

Eye-Tracking Methodology to Detect Differences in Attention to Faces Between Developmental Language Disorder and Autism.

Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR·2024
Same author

How to improve attitudes towards dementia? Reframing as a tool to overcome the stigma around Alzheimer's disease.

Patient education and counseling·2023

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Performance Studies

Background:

  • Existing theories of human error inadequately explain why high performers err in dynamic complex problem-solving tasks.
  • Current models struggle to predict which novel environmental conditions lead to errors versus successful adaptation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the hypothesis that performance is influenced by environmental conditions relevant to the employed problem-solving strategy.
  • To investigate the interaction between cognitive mechanisms and environmental factors in human error.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment was designed to evaluate the proposed hypothesis.
  • A novel research methodology was developed to assess performance under varying environmental conditions relevant to specific strategies.

Main Results:

Related Experiment Videos

  • Preliminary findings indicate that performance is indeed affected by strategy-relevant environmental changes.
  • The study differentiates between errors caused by general adaptation difficulties and those linked to specific strategy-environment mismatches.

Conclusions:

  • Human error in complex problem-solving is not solely due to difficulties adapting to novelty.
  • Environmental conditions' relevance to the active problem-solving strategy is a critical determinant of performance and error occurrence.