Attention and Arousal Cognition and Performance

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 Zeitg...

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Main Author: Eysenck, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
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505 0 |a 1 Introduction -- 2 Theories of Attention -- 2.1 Early Theories -- 2.2 Posner and Snyder: Automatic Activation and Conscious Attention -- 2.3 Shiffrin and Schneider: Controlled and Automatic Processes -- 2.4 Treisman and Gelade: Features and Objects -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Theories of Processing Resources -- 3.1 Baddeley and Hitch: Working Memory -- 3.2 Norman and Bobrow: Data-Limited and Resource-Limited Processes -- 3.3 Johnston and Heinz: Multi-Mode Theory -- 3.4 Navon and Gopher: Multiple Resources -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 Theories of Arousal and Performance -- 4.1 The Yerkes-Dodson Law -- 4.2 Easterbrook’s Hypothesis -- 4.3 Broadbent: Decision and Stress -- 4.4 Näätänen’s Theory -- 4.5 Kahneman: Attention and Effort -- 4.6 Thayer: Self-Reported Arousal -- 4.7 Hasher and Zacks: Automatic and Effortful Processes -- 4.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 5 Incentives and Motivation -- 5.1 Reinforcement and Incentives -- 5.2 Learning and Memory: Atkinson and Wickens (1971) -- 5.3 Short-Term Memory: Weiner -- 5.4 Task Characteristics -- 5.5 Performance Efficiency -- 5.6 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation -- 5.7 A Theoretical Overview -- 6 Anxiety and Performance -- 6.1 Worry and Emotionality -- 6.2 Working Memory Capacity -- 6.3 Spence and Spence (1966): Task Difficulty -- 6.4 Anxiety and Motivation -- 6.5 Failure and Shock -- 6.6 Failure and Success: A Cognitive Approach -- 6.7 Depth and Elaboration of Processing -- 6.8 Theoretical Positions -- 7 Endogenous Determinants of Arousal -- 7.1 Introversion - Extraversion -- 7.2 Time of Day -- 7.3 Sleep Deprivation -- 8 Exogenous Determinants of Arousal: Noise -- 8.1 Vigilance Task Performance -- 8.2 Continuous Tasks: Serial Reaction and Tracking -- 8.3 Learning and Memory -- 8.4 Attentional Selectivity -- 8.5 Theoretical Formulation -- 8.6 Summary -- 9 Conclusions andSpeculations -- 9.1 The Yerkes-Dodson Law -- 9.2 Stages of Processing -- 9.3 Two Arousal Systems -- 10 References -- 11 Author Index -- 12 Subject Index 
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520 |a 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