Sept 6th, 1995
YoonWhan Cho
Psy409
Dr. Leon James
How difficult was this week's task (lumping all the sub-tasks together)? circle one.
Very easy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very hard
This week's rating=9 How much negative emotions did it cost you, all in all?
Very little 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very much
This week's rating=9 How valuable for later use is this knowledge or skill going to be for you?
Not useful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very useful
This week's rating=9 How likely is it that you'll be getting good at this week's tasks?
Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quite likely
This week's rating=8 How satisfied are you with the computer and Internet systems?
Not satisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very satisfied
This week's rating=7 How hard did you try to get through this week's tasks?
Gave up easily 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Refused to
give up
This week's rating=9
NERVOUS AND LOST I was little bit more
prepared than the last time. When I got on the Netscape
for the first time, I was so nervous and lost. I
didn't even know where to
start but this time I thought and hoped that it would be different. I got on
the Netscape with little bit of anxiety. As I did last time, I began to look
for those buttons that are on the
handout. I just couldn't find them. As I
found out that last time, I don't ask for help easily and just keep working on
and assume how it could work. I was not ready to ask for help. The situation
was becoming worsen because I can not even find the very first
button that was
on the handout. I was just kept looking and looking but my anxiety was
extremely high and felt bad about the fact that I didn't even start yet. I
didn't know how to start with Netscape features because I didn't know where
they are. I was very angry at myself and was excited as I approached to the
front desk for help. When someone came to me and showed me where the features
were I had to laugh at myself for being such a narrow-sighted. They were right
above the buttons that I worked with last week. I didn't imagine they would be
located in the window.
SECOND
FOSSILIZED ERROR I was making a big mistake, the same sort of
mistake
that I made before when I was working with the buttons. It was one of my
fossilized error that I always assume things and make myself to be
narrow-sighted. It could have been much easier to find the features if I was
not assuming where they would be. My affection was very sensitive at that time
and began to settle down as I realize and analyze my mistake. I figured out
that it would have been easier for the beginner to find those features if there
was some kind of sign to make sense out of and help with the orientation of
features reducing stress and
anxiety at the same time. My hardship was not
over yet, it was just a beginning.
INTERPRETATION I found where Add/View Bookmarks
were but
had a hard time to interpret how it worked. I just kept clicking on it but
still couldn't figure out how they worked. I was panic again. I just wanted
to give up. I had hard time to find where they were and also didn't know how
they worked. Suddenly, I clicked on some where and I could figure out that it
was keeping track of where I went exploring. The interpretation was happening
without notice. I was very amazed by cognitive functioning system that worked
with this case. When I recall the last week
the interpretation was like a
cumulative functioning that was possible by gathering all the information
together but this time it was like a luck. I was totally lost and in a second
it was right there. The features were very helpful as I figured out how they
worked one by one. I was actually having a
good time trying to interpret the
features and didn't realize that I was sitting for about five hours without
moving. I was really into it.
WHEN YOU'RE
LOST... I didn't feel any discomfort and thought that
the most stressing part in using the Netscape is when you are lost. As I
continued to work on it, I was focusing on the process I interpret the
features. I found out that at the beginning part the affection or emotional
part of my cognition plays the major role but as I go on, the intellectual and
rational cognition takes over. Whenever I faced frustration for being lost,
the affective or emotional part persists and hinders with rational
interpretation. To conclude, it would be helpful to remind that interpretation
of the work of machine is bound to happen, so it would be better to minimize
the anxiety.