Objective: The current study examined whether training simulators for the acquisition of procedural skills should emphasize physical fidelity or cognitive fidelity of the task.Background: Simulation-based training for acquiring and practicing procedural skills is becoming widely established. Generally speaking, these simulators offer technological sophistication but disregard theory-based design, leaving unanswered the question of what task features should be represented in the simulators. The authors compared real-world training and two alternative virtual trainers, one emphasizing physical fidelity and the other cognitive fidelity of the task.Method: Participants were randomly assigned to one of four training groups in a LEGO® assembly task: virtual-physical fidelity, cognitive fidelity, real world, and control. A posttraining test to assess the development of procedural skills was conducted.Results: Both the virtual-physical fidelity and cognitive fidelity training methods produced better performance t...
['Ilanit Hochmitz', 'Nirit Yuviler-Gavish']
Physical Fidelity Versus Cognitive Fidelity Training in Procedural Skills Acquisition