Department of Psychology, Mississippi State University.
J Exp Psychol Appl. 2019 Jun;25(2):230-244. doi: 10.1037/xap0000193. Epub 2018 Oct 8.
Interruption interference refers to significant performance decreases that follow task interruption. Evidence has suggested that practicing interruption resumption reduces interruption interference as measured by the time required to resume the interrupted task. However, evidence has also indicated that interruption practice only improves resumption for the practiced pair of primary and interrupting tasks. If this is true, then there is little applied benefit in interruption training, because the training would be unlikely to transfer beyond the training environment. In the current studies, a transfer paradigm was utilized to determine whether interruption resumption skill practiced within a task-pair transfers to a novel task-pair. The results of Experiments 1A and 1B provide evidence that interruption resumption skill transfers to another primary task when the interrupting task is either held constant or varies. Experiment 2 manipulated the primary tasks to minimize the ability to reconstruct the next step in problem solving. When minimizing reconstruction, resumption skill that transfers is likely the ability to successfully retrieve the next planned action that was suspended when interrupted. The results support the conclusion that resumption skill does transfer and, therefore, opens up additional research avenues with applications to minimizing interruption interference. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
中断干扰是指任务中断后出现的显著性能下降。有证据表明，练习中断恢复可以减少中断干扰，这可以通过恢复中断任务所需的时间来衡量。然而，也有证据表明，中断练习仅能提高练习过的主任务和中断任务对的恢复。如果这是真的，那么中断训练的应用效益就很小，因为训练不太可能在训练环境之外转移。在目前的研究中，使用了转移范式来确定在任务对中练习的中断恢复技能是否可以转移到新的任务对中。实验 1A 和 1B 的结果提供了证据，表明当中断任务保持不变或变化时，中断恢复技能可以转移到另一项主要任务中。实验 2 操纵了主要任务，以最大限度地减少解决问题下一步骤的重构能力。当最小化重构时，可能转移的恢复技能是成功检索中断时暂停的下一个计划动作的能力。这些结果支持这样的结论，即恢复技能确实可以转移，因此为最小化中断干扰开辟了更多的研究途径，并应用于最小化中断干扰。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
