In the mind's eye : enhancing human performance / / Daniel Druckman and Robert A. Bjork, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811506103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1991
• ISBN: 1-280-21163-6; 9786610211630; 0-309-56309-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DruckmanDaniel <1939->; BjorkRobert A
• Soggetti: Performance - Psychological aspects; Cognitive psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""IN THE MIND'S EYE""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART I Overview""; ""1 Background""; ""THE COMMITTEE'S FIRST PHASE""; ""THE COMMITTEE'S SECOND PHASE""; ""THE REPORT""; ""Training""; ""Optimizing Long-Term Retention""; ""Modeling Expertise""; ""Developing Careers""; ""Altering Mental States""; ""Subliminal Self-Help""; ""Meditation""; ""Managing Pain""; ""Hiding and Detecting Deception""; ""A Broad Concept of Deception""; ""Performing""; ""Optimizing Individual Performance""; ""Enhancing Team Performance""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Findings and Conclusions""; ""TRAINING""; ""Optimizing Long-Term Retention and Transfer""""Modeling Expertise""; ""Developing Careers""; ""ALTERING MENTAL STATES""; ""Subliminal Self-Help""; ""Meditation""; ""Managing Pain""; ""Hiding and Detecting Deception""; ""A Broad Concept of Deception""; ""PERFORMING""; ""Optimizing Individual Performance""; ""Enhancing Team Performance""; ""PART II Training""; ""3 Optimizing Long-Term Retention and Transfer""; ""LONG-TERM RETENTION""; ""Original Learning""; ""Setting the Criterion of Mastery""; ""Automaticity""; ; ""Overlearning""; ""Task Cohesion and Organization""; ""Enhancing Retention""; ""Distribution of Practice""""Fostering Understanding""; ""Involving the Learner""; ""Refresher Training""; ""TRANSFER OF TRAINING""; ""General Factors in Transfer""; ""Level of Original Learning""; ""Perceived Similarity Between Tasks""; ""Enhancing Transfer""; ""Providing Contextual Interference During Training""; ""Increasing Variability and Variety in Training""; ""Reducing Feedback""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Modeling Expertise""; ""COGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP""; ""Modeling""; ""Coaching and Scaffolding""; ""Articulation, Reflection, and Exploration""""HOW EXPERTS EXCEL""; ""Measures in Laboratory Tasks""; ""Organized Knowledge Structures""; ""Strategies of Problem Solving and Reasoning""; ""When Do Experts Not Excel?""; ""ELICITING KNOWLEDGE FROM EXPERTS""; ""IMPARTING EXPERTS' KNOWLEDGE TO TRAINEES""; ""Direct Instruction""; ""Computer-Aided Support Systems""; ""Cognitive Apprenticeship Revisited""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Developing Careers""; ""A FRAMEWORK FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT""; ""Propositions""; ""Objectives""; ""Future Research Priorities""; ""ARMY PROGRAMS""; ""Self-Assessment Instruments""""The Army War College""; ""The National Defense University (NDU)""; ""Fort Bliss""; ""Fort Leavenworth""; ""Survey of Effects""; ""AN APPRAISAL OF THE MBTI""; ""Reliability""; ""Validity""; ""Effectiveness of Applications""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART III Altering Mental States""; ""6 Subliminal Self-Help""; ""SUBJECTIVELY PERCEPTIBLE VERSUS OBJECTIVELY DETECTABLE STIMULI""; ""MOBILIZATION, EFFORT JUSTIFICATION, AND EXPECTANCY EFFECTS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 Meditation""; ""SCIENTIFIC EVALUATIONS OF MEDITATION""