Human Performance: Cognition, Stress and Individual DifferencesHuman Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory. Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by contemporary cognitive science, including information processing and neuroscience perspectives. Section Two presents a multi-level view of the performer as biological organism, information-processor and intentional agent. It reviews the development of the cognitive theory of performance through experimental studies and also looks at practical issues such as human error. Section Three reviews the impact of stress factors such as noise, fatigue and illness on performance. Section Four assesses individual and group differences in performance with accounts of ability, personality and aging. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Modelling the cognitive architecture | 21 |
3 Key subsystems of the cognitive architecture | 45 |
4 Selective attention | 67 |
5 Divided attention and workload | 87 |
6 Vigilance and sustained attention | 107 |
7 Skilled performance | 125 |
8 Human error | 141 |
12 Fatigue and the energetics of performance | 207 |
Health diet and drugs | 225 |
14 Individual differences in ability and performance | 241 |
Personality and mood | 265 |
16 Ageing and human performance | 287 |
Epilogue | 311 |
References | 317 |
| 373 | |
An introduction | 161 |
10 Noise and irrelevant speech | 177 |
11 Thermal stress and other physical stressors | 193 |
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Human Performance: Cognition, Stress, and Individual Differences Gerald Matthews Limited preview - 2000 |
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