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Describe briefly about Cognitive Task Analysis including its methods,pros and cons and everything related to this topic.( 2000 words)

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Describe briefly about Cognitive Task Analysis including its methods,pros and cons and everything related to this topic

cognitive task analysis is the analysis of what people are thinking,what they know,how they used to organize & structure any information.so this cognitive task analysis is aimed for understanding the tasks which require a lot of cognitive activity from the users ,for example memory,decision making and problem solving,judgement & attention.There are different cognitive task analyze methods which analyze different cognitive activity which are utilized by users to perform certain tasks.There are different steps of cognitive task analysis,that are Task mapping,Identification of critical decision points,then clustering,linking and characterizing of the strategy.cognitive task analysis is mainly used to examine

1.Experts decision making

2.Difference between the performance of experts & novices.

3.Mental models development

4.Mental model's evolution.

Different methods of cognitive task analysis are

1.Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA)

2. Critical decision method (CDM)

3. Skill based CTA framework

4.Task knowledge structures (TKS)

5. Cognitive function model(CFM)

pros and cons of cognitive task analysis

Main advantage of cognitive task analysis is that it can be used to generate a precise and detailed information on the nature of the expert performance and if this cognitive task analysis is implemented correctly,it can be a very good and valid source of information on expert cognitive process.

Main disadvantage of cognitive task analysis are

1.Analysis of the data that are gathered during cognitive task analysis may be time consuming.

2.sometimes the result of cognitive task analysis may be misleading