Author: Dale BrackenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Effects of Task Difficulty and Job/task Experience on Task Performance
Author: Dale BrackenPerformance
Author: Kenneth Alan SabatiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Effects of Taking a Short Break
Author: Derek S. BurklandPublisher:
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Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This study examined whether or not task difficulty has influence on the effectiveness of break taking, specifically by measuring task performance. Undergraduate psychology students (N = 113) at a mid-sized Mid-western University engaged in a 30-45 minute experimental task of solving either difficult or easy anagrams with a break at the midpoint. Control groups did not receive a break. This study posited that participants working on a difficult task will report a higher need for recovery compared to individuals working on an easy task, and participants working on a difficult task will experience a greater gain in performance following a short 6- minute break than participants working on an easy task. It was concluded that individuals in the easy with break condition (versus difficult with break) benefited more in task performance from taking a break, and all individuals, regardless of task difficulty, indicated a need for recovery.
The Influence of Perceived Task Difficulty on Task Performance
Author: Dominick ScasserraPublisher:
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Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The Effects of Task Complexity, Experience, and Goals on Performance
Author: Debra Leah SteeleEffects of Experience and Task Difficulty on Event-Related Potentials
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Research has shown that increased task difficulty elicits decreased amplitude and an increase in latency for the p300 at the Pz electrode site. However, these have been based on research using subjects who are naive to the experimental task. Kobus, Beeler, and Stashower (1987) showed that the greater amplitude differences were found between target and non-target conditions at the Fzz electrode site. It was suggested that differences in the distribution of electrical activity may be indicative of a shift from controlled to automatic processing. The current study built on this earlier work. Increased task difficulty was expected to produce an increase in the differences observed between significant 3-way interaction for the p300 showed that amplitudes for both groups were greater for the attended condition at both the Fz and Pz sites. Attend trial amplitude values for the experienced group at the Fz electrode site were greater than for the inexperienced group, while amplitude values at the Pz site were greater for the inexperienced group. These findings provide additional support for the hypothesis that a re-distribution of electrical activity of the brain may be indicative of a shift from controlled to automatic processing. Keywords: Electrophysiology, Human performance, Task difficulty.
Effects of Educational Experience and Task Difficulty on Productivity
Author: Maria Ofelia RiscoPublisher:
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Category : Rehabilitation counselors
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Effect of Task Difficulty on Performance in Competitive and Noncompetitive Situations
Author: Kermit A. MangusPublisher:
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Category : Achievement motivation
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Effect of Initial Task Difficulty on Subsequent Cognitive Task Performance
Author: Vladimir V. PashkevichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cognition
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Attention and Arousal
Author: Michael EysenckPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642683908
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The thinker who has a mortal fear of being wrong will give all that is valuable in himself to that little ambition. Walter Lippmann (1914) Psychology has always been plagued by passing fads and fan cies to a greater extent than is seemly in a scientific discipline. Over the past few years the Zeitgeist can be summed up by the two words 'cognitive psychology'. Indeed, a recent poll of academic psychologists in American indicated that over 80% of them regarded themselves as cognitive psychologists! Cognitive psychology is in the ascendant, but it has never been clear to me that it has addressed all of the appropriate is sues. In particular, information processing in the real world (and even in the laboratory) occurs within a motivational and emotional context, but cognitive psychologists usually main tain the convenient fiction that cognition can fruitfully be stud ied in isolation. The main reason for writing this book was to at tempt to demonstrate that there can be a useful cross-fertiliza tion between cognitive and motivational-emotional psycholo gy and that there are already tantalizing glimpses of the poten tial advantages of such inter-disciplinary research. The ideas of Donald Broadbent and his associates have exer cised a formative influence during the writing of this book. They discovered some years ago that there are intriguing simi larities (as well as differences) in the effects on performance of such apparently quite disparate factors as white noise, time of day, introversion-extraversion and incentive.