Abstract
Zusammenfassung. In der experimentellen Kognitionspsychologie hat in den letzten Jahren das sogenannte Aufgabenwechsel-Paradigma ein breites Interesse gefunden. Ein herausragendes Ziel der Forschung mit diesem Paradigma besteht darin, zumindest einen Teil derjenigen Prozesse empirisch zugänglich zu machen, mittels derer Menschen ihr kognitives System auf variierende Aufgabenanforderungen einstellen. Im vorliegenden Artikel wird die These vertreten, dass eine bestimmte Determinante dieser Prozesse in der einschlägigen Forschung bislang nur unzureichende Berücksichtigung gefunden hat. Dabei handelt es sich um den globalen Kontext, in den lokale Übergänge zwischen einzelnen (Teil-)Aufgaben eingebettet sind. Dessen Bedeutung wird anhand eigener empirischer Arbeiten illustriert.
Abstract. In recent years the so-called task-shifting paradigm has gained broad interest in experimental cognitive psychology. A prominent aim of this line of research is to investigate the processes by which humans (re-) configure their cognitive system in order to meet dynamically changing task requirements (‘task-set reconfiguration’). In the present article it is argued that one important determinant of task-set re-configuration processes has been widely neglected in the current literature, namely the global context in which local transitions between individual tasks are embedded in. The importance of this factor is demonstrated with reference to some empirical work of the author.
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