Attention in Skilled Behavior: an Argument for Pluralism
Attention in Skilled Behavior: an Argument for Pluralism
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对熟练行为的关注:多元化的论据
DOI:
10.1007/s13164-021-00529-6
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Jennings, Carolyn Dicey
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作者:
Dayer, Alex;Jennings, Carolyn Dicey
Peak human performance—whether of Olympic athletes, Nobel prize winners, or you cooking the best dish you’ve ever made—depends on skill. Skill is at the heart of what it means to excel. Yet, the fixity of skilled behavior can sometimes make it seem a lower-level activity, more akin to the movements of an invertebrate or a machine. Peak performance in elite athletes is often described, for example, as “automatic” by those athletes: “The most frequent response from participants (eight athletes and one coach) when describing the execution of a peak performance was the automatic execution of performance” (Anderson et al. 2014). While the automaticity of skilled behavior is widely acknowledged, some worry that too much automaticity in skill would challenge its ability to exhibit human excellence. And so two camps have developed: those who focus on the automaticity of skilled behavior, the “habitualists,” and those who focus on the higher-level cognition behind peak performance, the “intellectualists.” We take a different tack. We argue that skilled behavior weaves together automaticity and higher-level cognition, which we call “pluralism.” That is, we argue that automaticity and higher-level cognition are both normal features of skilled behavior that benefit skilled behavior. This view is hinted at in other quotes about automaticity in skill—while expert gamers describe themselves as “playing with” automaticity (Taylor and Elam 2018), expert musicians are said to balance automaticity with creativity through performance cues: “Performance cues allow the musician to attend to some aspects of the performance while allowing others to be executed automatically” (Chaffin and Logan 2006). We describe in this paper three ways that higher-level cognition and automaticity are woven together. The first two,level pluralismandsynchronic pluralism, are described in other papers, albeit under different cover. We take our contribution to be both distinguishing the three forms and contributing the third,diachronic pluralism.In fact, we find that diachronic pluralism presents the strongest case against habitualism and intellectualism, especially when considered through the example ofstrategic automaticity. In each case of pluralism, we use research on the presence or absence of attention (e.g., in mind wandering) to explore the presence or absence of higher-level cognition in skilled behavior.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0504136102
发表时间:
2005-07-05
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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发表时间:
2015
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发表时间:
2007
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作者:
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