An evaluation of human act generation performance

Gettys, Charles F.; Pliske, Rebecca M.; Manning, Carol A.; Casey, Jeff T.

doi:10.1016/0749-5978(87)90044-6

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“…When given a problem, people tend not to generate a wide variety of alternative solutions (see Gettys, 1983 for a review). Several decision making researchers have reported that people claim to rum out of ideas af ter generating only a few alternatives (Mehle, 1982;Gettys, Manning, & Casey, 1981;Pitz, Sachs, & Heerboth, 1980). Thus, the first few hypotheses or alternative solutions to be generated can be very important because of their relatively high probability of being chosen and acted upon.…”

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confidence: 99%

Unaware Memory in Hypothesis Generation Tasks

Brooks¹,

Drum²

1986

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Unaware Memory in Hypothesis Generation Tasks

Brooks¹,

Drum²

1986

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“…Jungermann et al concluded that greater goal explicitness enhances the creative search process of the individuals. Gettys et al (1987) analyzed the ability of individuals to create alternatives to solve two decision problems. Because the results were similar, we summarize one experiment, where 60 introductory psychology students were instructed to take all the time needed to create as many alternatives as possible to solve the parking problem at their university.…”

Section: Methodological Research On Creating Alternativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The parking situation at a university in Germany affects most of the students daily. How to improve this situation is the decision problem in Study V. We adapted the parking problem from Gettys et al (1987) with appropriate adjustments for the number of parking lots, faculty members, and students.…”

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Creating More and Better Alternatives for Decisions Using Objectives

Siebert

Keeney

2015

Operations Research

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The quality of alternatives is crucial for making good decisions. This research, based on five empirical studies of important personally relevant decisions, examines the ability of decision makers to create alternatives for their important decisions and the effectiveness of different stimuli for improving this ability. For decisions for which the full set of potentially desirable alternatives is not readily apparent, our first study indicates that decision makers identify less than half of their alternatives and that the average quality of the overlooked alternatives is the same as those identified. Four other studies provide insight about how to use objectives to stimulate the alternative-creation process of decision makers and confirm with high significance that such use enhances both the number and quality of created alternatives. Using results of the studies, practical guidelines to create alternatives for important decisions are presented.

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“…The given cognitive model SIAM allows us to answer the question why problem solvers often consider only a small area of the solution space and think primarily within bounded areas of their knowledge networks [13,16]. SIAM assumes that the individual uses a search cue to activate knowledge in the LTM.…”

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confidence: 99%