Reset Noise
A deliberate injection of unstructured or disordered input intended to break out of an entrenched line of thinking; structure is reintroduced only in a subsequent step after the fixation is loosened.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is coded when a user intentionally supplies deliberately unstructured input (free association, scattered fragments, randomized prompts) explicitly to escape a stuck line of reasoning, followed in a later turn by a move to re-impose structure. The intentional unstructured-input turn is the countable marker.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Rater coding of prompt structure: coders classify user turns as structured vs. deliberately unstructured and mark stated de-fixation intent and a later restructuring turn; count qualifying sequences per session; inter-rater agreement would be assessed via Cohen's kappa on the structure labels.