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Geographic Information Systems: How Cognitive Style Impacts Decision-Making Effectiveness

Geographic Information Systems: How Cognitive Style Impacts Decision-Making Effectiveness

Martin D. Crossland, Richard T. Herschel, William C. Perkins, Joseph N. Scudder
Copyright: © 2002 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781930708426|ISBN10: 1930708424|EISBN13: 9781591400288
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-930708-42-6.ch017
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Crossland, Martin D., et al. "Geographic Information Systems: How Cognitive Style Impacts Decision-Making Effectiveness." Advanced Topics in End User Computing, Volume 1, edited by Mo Adam Mahmood, IGI Global, 2002, pp. 285-301. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-42-6.ch017

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Crossland, M. D., Herschel, R. T., Perkins, W. C., & Scudder, J. N. (2002). Geographic Information Systems: How Cognitive Style Impacts Decision-Making Effectiveness. In M. Mahmood (Ed.), Advanced Topics in End User Computing, Volume 1 (pp. 285-301). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-42-6.ch017

Chicago

Crossland, Martin D., et al. "Geographic Information Systems: How Cognitive Style Impacts Decision-Making Effectiveness." In Advanced Topics in End User Computing, Volume 1, edited by Mo Adam Mahmood, 285-301. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2002. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-42-6.ch017

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Abstract

A laboratory experiment is conducted to investigate how two individual cognitive style factors, field dependence and need-for-cognition, relate to decision-making performance for a spatial task. The intent of the investigation is to establish a methodology for measuring cognitive fit for spatial tasks. The experiment assesses the performance of 142 subjects on a site location task where the problem complexity and availability of a geographic information system are manipulated on two levels. Significant relationships are found for both field dependence and need-for-cognition with the two dependent performance variables, solution time and percent error.

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