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Showing 1 to 20 of 584 for “"Task performance"”.
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The Development of Dual Task Performance
The development of dual task performance was investigated in terms of the contribution of single task level of performance and a time sharing skill on dual task performance across age groups and stages of learning. 160 boys and girls, 6-7 and 8-9 years old from public schools in S. Paulo, Brazil, …
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Household task performance continuity during widowhood
… larger project entitled "Continuity of Household Task Performance During Widowhood", supported by the AARP-Andrus Foundation. The Household Task Performance model was applied to examine gender differences in household task performance before and during widowhood and variables associated with …
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Dual task performance and antihistimine use
… sedative effects as well as impair psychomotor performance. Performance testing of antihistamines, however, has not produced reliable evidence that there are behavioral effects at therapeutic dose levels. Therefore, the objective of this research was to determine whether a complex cognitive and …
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The Effects of Biofeedback on Task Performance
… of biofeedback training on an individual's peak performance while performing a stress-provoking task. In a between subjects design 30 individual college students were divided into 2 groups. One group received auditory biofeedback and relaxation training, and the other group received no training. …
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Psycho-Physiological Variables in Motor Task Performance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T01:12:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7411961.pdf: 5394782 bytes, checksum: a39448e0903b921f4b21319d23605098 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Effects of induced mood on task performance
… better on creativity or divergent thinking tasks and worse on tasks requiring systematic, analytic thinking than do people in other moods. Hypotheses regarding the processes underlying these effects can be grouped into those that propose that mood influences performance by affecting what is …
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3D task performance using head-coupled stereo displays
… display. The first two experiments tested user performance under different viewing conditions. The two variables were (a) whether or not stereoscopic display was used and (b) whether or not head-coupled perspective was used. In the first experiment, subjects were asked to subjectively rank the …
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The role of sleep in creative task performance
… evidence suggests that sleep can aid in creative performance, but few studies have systematically investigated this association. Prior research suggests that creative thinking, particularly divergent cognition, is similar to mental states found in sleep and dreaming, especially during REM sleep. …
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The Effect of Psychological Stress on Complex Task Performance.
… under various degrees of psychological stress. Performance efficiency may vary depending on the individual's level of arousal, and high levels of psychological stress might adversely affect task performance. The pervasiveness and importance of the effects of psychological stress on performance …
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The influence of perceived task difficulty on task performance
… the influence that the perceived difficulty of a task has on task performance. Twenty-one undergraduate college students were asked to complete three anagram worksheets. Each worksheet had a different description of difficulty (easy, medium, hard), although all worksheets were of the same …
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Increasing Functional Task Performance in Adults with Low Vision
… appraised topic explores the functional task performance of adults with low vision utilizing tactile vision substitution systems, specifically tongue display units (TDUs). TDUs are a novel assistive device that functions to provide artificial vision to those with low vision. TDUs pixelate …
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Influences of Hemispheric Specialization and Interaction on Task Performance
… between the cerebral hemispheres improves performance. The research in this dissertation provides evidence that dividing processing between the cerebral hemispheres improves performance when a task is computationally complex, but only to the extent that the operations required by the task …
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Individual and Group Goal Setting for Individual Task Performance
… of individual and group goal setting for the task performance of individuals. In the first experiment, goal setting occurred for a problem-solving task and an error-checking task. For both tasks, two versions were constructed to reflect low and high task difficulty. The general expectation …
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The Effects of Evaluation and Choice on Task Performance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:47:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412263.pdf: 5480165 bytes, checksum: 75971eef772ae56988500156b8a5e81f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The Relationship Between Psychological Distance and Effective Task Performance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:33:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900498.pdf: 4832383 bytes, checksum: b7a0066542f0b5372e8f064a5bf31d18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
… between group membership salience and task performance.
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Preference for imagery perspective, imagery perspective training and task performance
… in all three groups completed the imagery and performance pre-tests and the performance post-tests, as well as the manipulation checks, but the control group did not undertake any imagery training. Results indicated strong correlations between the lUQ items and the RS. Before imagery …
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