Another source of individual differences: Strategy adaptivity to changing rates of success

This article explores an alternative approach to the study of individual di fferences of cognitive function that people may have the same strategies bu t differential ability to adaptively select among them in response to succe ss and failure feedback from the environment. Three studies involving the c omplex and dynamic Kanfer-Ackerman Air Traffic Control Task (P. L. Ackerman & R. Kanfer, 1994) demonstrate (a) that individuals do differ systematical ly along this strategy adaptivity dimension, (b) that those differences hav e important consequences for overall task performance, and (c) that the dif ferences are primarily associated with reasoning ability and working-memory capacity.