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Energetics and Human Information Processing
The central theme of this book is the role of energetical factors in the regulation of human information processing activity. This is a restatement of one of the classic problems of psychology - that of acc ounting for motivational or intensive aspects of behaviour, as opposed to structural or directional aspects. The term "energetics" was first used in the 1930's by Freeman, Duffy and others, following Cannon's energy mobilization view of emotion and motivation. The original concept had a limited life, probably because of its unnecessary focus on relativ ely peripheral processes, but it provided the foundations for the con cepts of "arousal" and "activation" which became the popular motivat...
Psychobiology of Personality
Personality can be defined along a small number of well established dimensions, at least half of which are determined by hereditary factors. This book explores the biological basis of individual differences in personality from genes to the structure, chemistry, and function of the brain and peripheral nervous system.
Psychophysiological Recording
This is a thorough revision of an introductory text on psychophysiological recording, with new information on equipment used to do brain scanning and other equipment not available in 1980.
Work Motivation
A unique compendium of international investigations into motivation and performance, this book offers chapters by industrial and organizational psychologists from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan as they share their theories, concepts, empirical evidence, and practical evidence regarding the subject. The volume focuses on three distinct themes: * the relationship between motivation and performance * practical examples of building and strengthening the motivating potential with particular attention paid to productivity and the health of the employees * the development of work motivation over time and the change of the relative importance of central variables Work Motivation provides an exceptional blend of modern theoretical approaches, technologically sound techniques for solving practical problems, and empirical results to prove theoretical and technical validities.
Clinical and Methodological Issues in Cardiovascular Psychophysiology
Based on a Meeting Held in May 1984 in Linz, Federal Republic of Germany
International Review of Neurobiology
International Review of Neurobiology
Cognitive Biases
Many studies in cognitive psychology have provided evidence of systematic deviations in cognitive task performance relative to that dictated by optimality, rationality, or coherency. The texts in this volume present an account of research into the cognitive biases observed on various tasks: reasoning, categorization, evaluation, and probabilistic and confidence judgments. The authors have attempted to discern the contribution of the study of bias to our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in each case, rather than proposing an inventory of the different types of biases. A special section has been devoted to studies on the correction of biases and cognitive aids.
Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking
This book is about a trait describing variations in the universal need for novel and intense stimulation and its expressions in various risky kinds of behaviour (including driving habits, health, gambling, financial risk, alcohol and drug use and abuse, sexual behaviour, and sports). Sensation seeking is also important in preferences for various vocations, media forms and content, food, humour and social attitudes. Compatibility in the trait influences premarital and marital relationship satisfaction. Its modes of assessment, behavioural expressions, and genetic and psychobiological bases are described by one of the leading researchers in this field. This book presents the only available study of this fascinating topic and it will be sure to interest researchers and their students active in personality research.
Recent Developments in Job Analysis
BVA, A New Method to Investigate Combined Stress Factors -- Stress and Strain in Kitchen Work -- Mental Effort in Problem Solving as Manifest in the Power Spectra of Heart-interbeat Intervals -- The Assessment of Mental Workload in Dual-task Performance: Task Specific and Task Unspecific Influences -- Session VI: Job Analysis and Technological Change -- The Modular Work Analysis System (MAS) -- The P-TAI-Concept: An Integrative Approach -- Office Communication Analysis: Its Contribution to Work Design -- Work Analysis as a Tool for Task- and Work Oriented Design of Computer Assisted Cooperative Work Svstems -- Evaluation of New Workplaces by Modelling and Simulation of Operator Procedures -- Session VII: Examples for Analysis In Job Design -- Analysis of CAD/CAM Job Content and Workplace Characteristics -- Work Analysis and Load Components in an Automobile Plant After the Implementation of New Technologies -- Job Analysis in Design Work.
Memory and Emotion
Deals primarily with the role of emotions in the mechanisms of memory. A compilation of the lectures given at a course conducted at the International School of Biocybernetics.
