| Description |
x, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Series Foreword -- Introduction -- Skills of Civilized Man -- Features of Skilled Performance -- Categories of Skill -- Information Processing -- The Organization of This Book -- Learning and Skilled Performance -- Phases of Skill Learning -- The limits of Skill -- Old Habits and New Skills -- Other Aspects of Learning -- Motivation and Performance -- Potential versus Actual Performance -- Feedback -- Performance and Stress -- Alertness and Fatigue -- Individual Differences -- Component Processes and Performance Capacities -- Sensory Capacities -- Perceptual Processes -- Memory Processes -- Response Processes -- The Measurement of Skills -- Types of Tasks -- Optimal Measures -- Information Transmission -- Human Capacities in Perceptual Motor Skills -- History of Reaction Time Studies -- Simple Reaction Time -- Temporal Uncertainty -- Choice Reaction Time -- Learning and Compatibility -- Speed versus Accuracy -- Serial and Continuous Performance -- Summary -- Language Skills -- Transformations -- The Single-Channel Hypothesis -- Reading and listening -- Summary -- Applications -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
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Reprint of the ed. published by Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., Belmont, Calif., which appeared in Basic concepts in psychology series |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 151-158 |
| Subject |
Human-computer interaction.
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Motor ability.
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Performance.
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Psychology.
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| Author |
Posner, Michael I., author
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| LC no. |
79004253 |
| ISBN |
0313212457 |
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