Nikita Deshpande, Meng Wu, Colleen Kelly, Nicole Woodrick, Debra A Werner, Anna Volerman, Valerie G Press
Video-Based Educational Interventions for Patients With Chronic Illnesses: Systematic Review
Journal of medical Internet research
abilities predict explain control might arise operations common underlying representation conversely independent cognitive processes developed novel experimental paradigm explore individuals might use probabilistic mental models three tasks varying levels complexity uncertainty participants interacted simple chatbot defined finitestate machine tested ability predict explain control chatbots responses full information available performance varied significantly across tasks control proving robust increased complexity explanation challenging presence hidden information however performance across tasks equalized participants demonstrated alternative neglect bias ie tendency ignore less likely possibilities second withinsubject experimental design looked correlations abilities find strong correlations challenges task subjects limited statistical power understand effects better final experiment investigated possibility crosstraining skill transfer zeroshot performance well participant explicitly trained one three tasks could perform others without additional training found strong asymmetries participants trained control gained generalizable abilities predict explain training either prediction explanation lead transfer crosstraining experiment also revealed correlations performance notably control prediction findings highlight complex role mental models contrast taskspecific heuristics information partially hidden suggest new avenues research situations acquisition general purpose mental models may provide unifying explanation variety cognitive abilities