Components of response rate in complex decision-making

The effect of changes in information load on response rate and its components in complex decision-making was investigated. Data were collected in a simulated decision-making environment permitting both integrated and unintegrated decision-making responses. It was found that (1) strategic integrated decision-making first increases, then decreases with increasing information load; (2) general unintegrated decision-making first decreases, then increases with increasing information load; and (3) simple retaliatory decision-making increases with increasing information load. Total decision-making response rate generally follows the ascending input-output rate curve which has been established for a number of information-processing organisms.