An exploration of trait variables predicting the goal-directed control of visual attention

McKinney, Molly R.; Hansen, Heather A.; Irons, Jessica; Leber, Andrew B.

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“…We also recently examined whether ACVS strategy correlated with reasoning, as measured by the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR; Condon & Revelle, 2014), and academic ability, as measured by the ACT, a college entrance exam. Although both the ICAR and ACT scores correlated with response time, indicating a relationship to visual search ability, neither predicted ACVS strategy (McKinney, Hansen, Irons, & Leber, 2019).…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Individual heterogeneity in effort profiles could explain why strategy use correlates poorly across visual search tasks (Clarke et al, 2020), especially if these tasks differentially tax different subprocesses. Such an explanation would also cast our unsuccessful attempt to link ACVS to more high-level life-strategy metrics, such as academic performance, as overly optimistic (McKinney et al, 2019). Note that it is possible that these effort profiles relate in some way to ability (e.g., individuals with higher working memory capacity may find tasks taxing working memory less effortful than most) and other characteristics (e.g., personality or past experience); however, we have yet to find evidence supporting this notion.…”

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Developing an Individual Profile of Attentional Control Strategy

Irons

Leber

2020

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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What makes one person better at controlling attention than the next person? Attempts to answer this question have largely focused on measuring individuals’ cognitive abilities. However, variation in attentional performance can also be due to differences in strategy. Here, we describe research showing that individuals vary dramatically in how they choose to control attention, with many reliably choosing suboptimal strategies. Optimal strategy choice appears to be unrelated to attentional control ability, general cognitive ability, or even strategy choice on other attention tasks. It does, however, correlate with how effortful individuals find the optimal strategy, which suggests that strategy choice may be driven by subjective, task-specific effort demands. These findings represent initial steps toward fully characterizing an individual profile of attentional control strategies.

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Section: Can Strategy Be Explained By Ability?mentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: What Determines Strategy Choice?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing an Individual Profile of Attentional Control Strategy

Irons

Leber

2020

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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“…Individual heterogeneity in effort profiles could explain why strategy use correlates poorly across visual search tasks (Clarke et al, in press), especially if these tasks differentially tax different sub-processes. Such an explanation would also cast our unsuccessful attempt to link ACVS to more high-level "life strategy" metrics like academic performance as overly optimistic (McKinney et al, 2019). Note that it is possible that these effort profiles relate in some way to ability (for example, those with higher working memory capacity may find tasks taxing working memory less effortful than most) and other characteristics such as personality or past experience; however, we have yet to find evidence supporting this notion thus far.…”

Section: What Determines Strategy Choice?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing an individual profile of attentional control strategy

Irons¹,

Leber²

2019

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What makes one person better at controlling attention than the next? Attempts to answer this question have largely focused on measuring individuals’ cognitive abilities. However, variation in attentional performance can also be due to differences in strategy. Here we describe research showing that individuals vary dramatically in how they choose to control attention, with many reliably choosing suboptimal strategies. Optimal strategy choice appears to be unrelated to attentional control ability, general cognitive ability, or even strategy choice on other attention tasks. It does, however, correlate with how effortful individuals find the optimal strategy, suggesting strategy choice may be driven by subjective, task-specific effort demands. These findings represent initial steps toward fully characterizing an individual profile of attentional control strategies.

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An exploration of trait variables predicting the goal-directed control of visual attention

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