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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Experimental Psychology

Background:

  • Task prioritization is crucial for managing performance tradeoffs in multi-tasking.
  • Individual preferences for task prioritization and their potential conflict with explicit instructions remain under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether individuals possess task preferences that may contradict given priority instructions.
  • To examine how these preferences interact with and can be overridden by formal instructions in a dual-task setting.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments utilized a high-speed driving game and an auditory memory task.
  • Experiment 1 assessed preferences without explicit instructions; Experiments 2 and 3 incorporated these preferences as instructions.
  • Performance and mental effort were measured, alongside retrospective accounts of task preferences.

Main Results:

  • Significant individual differences in task prioritization preferences were observed.
  • Priority instructions could override personal preferences, but this required substantial dual-task exposure.
  • Performance tradeoffs in dual-tasking conditions demonstrably affected perceived mental effort.

Conclusions:

  • Personal task preferences exist and can influence multi-tasking behavior, potentially conflicting with imposed priorities.
  • Adaptation to dual-tasking environments allows for the eventual dominance of explicit priority instructions over personal preferences.
  • Findings suggest a need to integrate individual preferences into models of cognitive control and task management, potentially extending theories like Threaded Cognition and Compensatory Control.