Reactivity effects of concurrent verbalisation during a graph comprehension task

Nadia Ali; David Peebles

Reactivity effects of concurrent verbalisation during a graph comprehension task

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We report an experiment investigating how concurrent verbalisation during a task can affect performance (a so-called “reactivity” effect). Participants studied three-variable line graphs while (a) concurrently thinking aloud or (b) silently studied the graphs and provided an interpretation once they felt they had understood it. Results showed that verbalisation hindered performance significantly compared to the silent condition. To support the claim that the act of verbalising was hindering performance, competing explanations were also tested, which confirmed thinking aloud as the most likely cause. This contradicts claims by Ericsson and Simon (1993) that thinking aloud reflects but does not affect performance and provides further evidence that verbalising thought processes can hinder performance

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Editors	Markus Knauff, Natalie Sebanz, Michael Pauen, Ipke Wachsmuth
Publisher	The Cognitive Science Society
Pages	1720-1725
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9780976831891
ISBN (Print)	978097683189
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Berlin, Germany Duration: 31 Jul 2013 → 3 Aug 2013 Conference number: 35

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Conference	35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics
Abbreviated title	CogSci 2013
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	31/07/13 → 3/08/13

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Ali, N., & Peebles, D. (2013). Reactivity effects of concurrent verbalisation during a graph comprehension task. In M. Knauff, N. Sebanz, M. Pauen, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1720-1725). The Cognitive Science Society. https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2013/papers/0322/index.html

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Ali, N & Peebles, D 2013, Reactivity effects of concurrent verbalisation during a graph comprehension task. in M Knauff, N Sebanz, M Pauen & I Wachsmuth (eds), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. The Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1720-1725, 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 31/07/13. <https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2013/papers/0322/index.html>

Reactivity effects of concurrent verbalisation during a graph comprehension task. / Ali, Nadia; Peebles, David.

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. ed. / Markus Knauff; Natalie Sebanz; Michael Pauen; Ipke Wachsmuth. The Cognitive Science Society, 2013. p. 1720-1725.

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