Type of verbal assistance

Definition

Restarting

Used to revive a participant’s thinking and/or planning operation when he provided a signal that his search was over. Restarting assistance was also provided to restate some aspect of the context of the evaluation or the instructions in order to facilitate the re-engagement of a participant in planning.

Scaffolding

Employed to bring to a participant’s attention an element of a previous response that was either valid, in need of correction or that required specification.

Cueing

Utilized to provide a participant with an extra bit of information in order to help him progress.

Action priming

Provided to invite a participant to begin to put a plan into action.

Suggestion of a strategy

Given to help a participant with an anticipated problem to continue with the elaborated plan.

Explicit advice

Supplied to a participant when there appeared to be no other indirect way to help him progress, as he had stopped searching and all other possible types of assistance had previously been provided without success.