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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Druckman, Daniel, 1939-

Bjork, Robert A.

National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance., Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance--Psychological aspects.

Performance.

Cognitive psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The archer stands and pulls back the bow, visualizing the path of the arrow to the target. Does this mental exercise enhance performance? Can we all use such techniques to improve performance in our daily lives? In the Mind's Eye addresses these and other intriguing questions. This volume considers basic issues of performance, exploring how techniques for quick learning affect long-term retention, whether an expert's behavior can serve as a model for beginners, if team performance is the sum of individual members' performances, and whether subliminal learning has a basis in science. The book also considers meditation and some other pain control techniques. Deceit and the ability to detect deception are explored in detail. In the area of self-assessment techniques for career development, the volume evaluates the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

"Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610211630

9781280211638

1280211636

9780309563093

0309563097

OCLC:

923268728