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Psychology

University of North Florida

Theses/Dissertations

2012

Academic – UNF – Master of Arts in General Psychology; Dynamic Decision Making; Complex Problem Solving; Training; Self-Reflection; Microworlds

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Improving Dynamic Decision Making Through Training And Self-Reflection, Sarah Jane Donovan Jan 2012

Improving Dynamic Decision Making Through Training And Self-Reflection, Sarah Jane Donovan

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The modern business environment requires managers to make decisions in a dynamic and uncertain world. In the current study, experimenters investigated the effects of a brief training aimed at improving dynamic decision making (DDM) skills on individual performance in a virtual DDM task. During the training, experimenters explained the DDM process, stressed the importance of self-reflection in DDM, and provided 3 selfreflective questions to guide participants during the task. Additionally, experimenters explored whether participants low or high in self-reflection would perform better in the task and whether participants low or high in self-reflection would benefit more from the training. Participants …