AN EXPLORATORY-STUDY OF TASK ORDER IN COMPUTER-TEST BATTERIES

Two of four possible tasks requiring judgments of Same or Different an d which previously were administered in a between-subjects design were presented in a balanced incomplete block design to 48 undergraduate w omen. The relative difficulty among the four tasks was similar; howeve r, task orders, i.e., subjects being administered one RT task before o r after another, produced dissimilar decision strategies by subjects f or the four tasks. Results suggest differential effects of task order in computer tests.