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The goal of this experiment is to observe the relation between synchrony and performance in 3-person teams in a simulated Army medic training environment (i.e., Monitoring Extracting and Decoding Indicators of Cognitive workload: MEDIC). The cardiac measure Interbeat-Interval (IBI) was monitored during a physically oriented, and a cognitively oriented task. IBI was measured using NIRS (Near-Infrared Spectrology), and performance was measured using a team task score during a balance board and puzzle task. Synchrony has not previously been monitored across completely different tasks in the same experiment. I hypothesize that teams with high synchrony will show high performance on both tasks. Although no significant results were discovered by the correlational analysis, a trend was revealed that suggests there is a positive relationship between synchrony and performance. This study has contributed to the literature by monitoring physiological measures in a simulated team training environment, making suggestions for future research.
ContributorsFedele, Michael A (Author) / Cooke, Nancy J. (Thesis advisor) / Gray, Rob (Committee member) / Roscoe, Rod (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
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A core component of leadership is being able to motivate and influence people to perform at the highest levels they are capable of. Being able to perform well in most industries requires people to put effort into their work, bypass surface level impulses, and engage deeper levels of cognitive processes when making decisions. This study looked at two treatments, an expectation and a social incentive, and its effects on cognitive reflection test (CRT) scores and time taken to complete this test. Although it appeared that receiving a leaderboard and expectation treatment improved cognitive reflection test score, these results were not statistically significant. It appeared that a leaderboard and expectation treatment increased time put into taking the test after removing certain data, but these results were also not statistically significant. After some transformation of the data, there may be an effect that leaderboards have on deeper level cognitive engagement if time and effort put into the test is controlled for properly, but this will have to be observed further in future studies.
ContributorsHrabovsky, John (Author) / Gray, Rob (Thesis advisor) / Becker, Vaughn (Committee member) / Craig, Scotty (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022