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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Performance Studies

Background:

  • Understanding how practice order influences cognitive task performance is crucial for optimizing learning and skill acquisition.
  • Autonomy in task selection is increasingly recognized as a factor impacting motivation and performance outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of participant autonomy in selecting the practice order of two reaction time (RT) tasks (choice-RT and Simon) on performance.
  • To determine if a specific practice order yields superior results compared to others.
  • To assess whether participants' chosen practice order might inadvertently hinder their performance.

Main Methods:

  • Online study with 59 participants randomly assigned to autonomy, choice-first, or Simon-first groups.
  • Autonomy group participants selected their practice order; a yoked (no-autonomy) group was created for comparison.
  • Standardized familiarization, practice (160 trials per task), and post-test (20 trials per task) phases were implemented.

Main Results:

  • Participants granted autonomy demonstrated significantly faster RTs than those in the no-autonomy group.
  • Practicing the choice-RT task before the Simon task resulted in faster RTs compared to the reverse order.
  • A notable proportion (9 out of 17) of participants in the autonomy group preferred practicing the Simon task first.

Conclusions:

  • Granting autonomy in practice order selection can enhance performance in reaction time tasks.
  • A potential discrepancy exists between participants' preferred practice order and the order that optimizes their performance.
  • Further research is warranted to explore the interplay between choice, preference, and performance in skill learning.