| Goal specification | What were your specific goals at the various decision points? |
| Cue identification | What features were you looking at when you formulated your decision? |
| | How did you know that you needed to make the decision? |
| | How did you know when to make the decision? |
| Expectancy | Were you expecting to make this type of decision during the course of the event? |
| | Describe how this affected your decision-making process. |
| Conceptual model | Are there any situations in which your decision would have turned out differently? |
| | Describe the nature of these situations and the characteristics that would have changed the outcome of your decision. |
| Influence of uncertainty | At any stage, were you uncertain about either the reliability or the relevance of the information that you had available? |
| | At any stage, were you uncertain about the appropriateness of the decision? |
| Information integration | What was the most important piece of
information that you used to formulate the decision? |
| Situation awareness | What information did you have available to you when formulating the decision? |
| Situation assessment | Did you use all the information available to you when formulating the decision? |
| | Was there any additional information that you might have used to assist in the formulation of the decision? |
| Options | Were there any other alternatives available to you other than the decision you made? |
| | Why were these alternatives considered inappropriate? |
| Decision blocking - stress | Was there any stage during the decision-making process in which you found it difficult to process and integrate the information available? |
| | Describe precisely the nature of the situation. |
| Basis of choice | Do you think that you could develop a rule, based on your experience, which could assist another person to make the same decision successfully? |
| | Do you think that anyone else would be able to use this rule successfully? Why/Why not? |
| Analogy/generalisation | Were you at any time, reminded of previous experiences in which a similar decision was made? |
| | Were you at any time, reminded of previous experiences in which a different decision was made? |
