Skill Acquisition and Human Performance (Advanced Psychology Texts, Band 1) - Hardcover

Proctor, Robert W.; Dutta, Addie; Ehrenstein, Addie

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ISBN 10: 0803950101 ISBN 13: 9780803950108

Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc, 1995

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Providing a coherent picture of how research on skills is conducted, this volume brings together findings from a number of disciplines to enrich our current understanding of human skills.

Taking an information-processing approach, the authors provide an historical and conceptual introduction and examine research studies in which comparatively simple laboratory tasks are used to investigate skill. They then consider performance of more complex tasks that impose greater demands on attention and memory. The book concludes by focusing on expertise in specific real-world situations, discussing applications to areas such as: training; the role of individual differences in abilities; situational performance-shaping factors; and th

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Robert Proctor is Professor of Psychology at Purdue University at West Lafayette. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1975. Dr. Proctor has been teaching and conducting research in the field of attention and human performance for nearly 30 years. He conducts research on basic and applied aspects of human performance, with an emphasis on stimulus-response compatibility effects and the relation between perception and action. Dr. Proctor is member of several journal editorial boards. He has co-authored four books and co-edited two. Attention: Theory and Practice is his second book with Dr. Addie Johnson; the first, Skill Acquisition and Human Performance, was published by Sage in 1995. Together, these two authors brought an integrated perspective and broad experience to bear in crafting this book. Dr. Proctor is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society and an honorary fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803950101
• ISBN 13: 9780803950108
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 451
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