The Optimal Use of Simulation: Erratum

Abstract

Reports an error in the original article by Joseph Weitz and Seymour Adler (Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol. 58(2) Oct 1973, 219-224). A sentence on page 223 was incorrectly set. The corrected sentence is provided. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 1974-12088-001 .) Investigated the problem of when to stop training on a simulator and the disadvantages of simulator fidelity. 50 male and 50 female undergraduates were either overtrained, not overtrained, or not trained at all (controls) in a collating task with 3 or 5 racks. Results were not significant, but the hypothesized outcomes were in the predicted direction: (a) for males, overtraining on collating either 3 or 5 racks led to slightly poorer performance on the real task (collating 8 racks) than for the comparable groups with no overtraining; and (b) for females, overtraining on both the 3- and 5-rack tasks improved real task performance over the control condition, but only in the overtrained condition. A paradigm for further investigations is suggested. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)