Elements of Human Performance: Reaction Processes and Attention in Human Skill

ISBN-13: 9780805820515 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 592 str.

A. F. Sanders; Andries F. Sanders; JR. Thomas Sanders

Opis

This volume presents a review of research on reaction processes and attention as it has evolved over the last 40 years in the context of the information processing tradition in cognitive psychology. It is argued and demonstrated that issues of reaction processes and attention are closely interconnected. Their common conceptualization can be seen in terms of limited processing capacity on the one hand, and stage analysis on the other. This volume concludes that, at present, a stage analysis metaphor offers better prospects as a conceptual starting point; the limited capacity metaphor was strongly tied to the digital computers of the 1960s.

Recenzje

"...[the book] should be appreciated by students and researchers in various fields related to human performance, such as cognitive, engineering, organizational, or social psychology.
—Contemporary Psychology

"This is a remarkably good book. It documents the insights of a distinguished career in applied cognitive psychology and human engineering."
—The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

"This is a remarkably good book....As a handbook to this field there has been nothing to equal this book during the 30 years since Donald Broadbent's Decision and Stress, which it supersedes in other senses than the inevitable updating and reassessment of literature. It is arguably more effective than this brilliant, dense, and slightly strange book....It should be very widely read, particularly by undergraduates and research students."
—The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Spis treści

Contents.Preface. Introduction. Introduction to Reaction Processes. Reaction Processes: General Properties and Models. Reaction Processes: Stage Analysis. Reaction Processes: Effects of Variables. Reaction Processes: Beyond Traditional Choice-Reaction Time. Introduction to Attention. Focused Attention and Search. Automaticity and Divided Attention. Energetics, Stress, and Sustained Attention. The Total Task: Reversal of the Perspective. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

O autorze

Andries F. Sanders, Andries Sanders