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Managing the Cognitive Loads Associated with Judgment and Decision-Making in a Group of Adventure Sports Coaches: A Mixed-Method Investigation
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Collins, Loel; Collins, Dave – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2021
This paper expands work on professional judgment and decision-making and examines the coping strategies used by adventure sports professionals to manage the cognitive loads of decision-making. A mixed methodology was employed in which a sample of participants completed a Pro Active Coping Inventory and a sub-group then completed an Applied…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Evaluative Thinking, Decision Making
Missed Opportunity in Mathematics Anxiety
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Brewster, Barbara Jane Melissa; Miller, Tess – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
In our technologically advanced society proficiency in mathematics is paramount to success in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employment sector. Mathematics anxiety negatively affects an individual's physiological and cognitive functioning, which results in the individual obtaining lower achievement in mathematics. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Situational Denial and Performance Under Stress
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Houston, B. Kent; Hodges, William F. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Males
Field Independence and Stroop Color-Word Performance
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Hochman, Sidney H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Color, Discrimination Learning
Conceptual Systems Theory and Control of Individual Differences in Psychological Experimentation
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Greaves, George – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Relation Between Cardiac Patterns and Reading Performance in Second and Fourth Grade Children
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Burgess, Michael M.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, Grade 4, Individual Differences
Effects of Redundancy on Performance Under Overload Stress
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Hurst, Paul M.; McKendry, James M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Error Patterns, Information Processing
Anxiety and Arousal
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Heilizer, Fred; Cutter, Henry S. G. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Assessing Various Coping Strategies and Their Effects on Test Performance and Anxiety.
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Morris, Larry W.; Engle, W. Benjamin – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
Investigated the use of cognitive coping strategies in meeting the stressfulness of a testing situation and the relation of these strategies to performance and test anxiety. Rationalization and isolation were associated with better performance, preoccupation and resignation with higher anxiety and poorer performance, and denial with lower anxiety.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Coping, Emotional Adjustment
Further Study of Short-Term Memory for Various Types of Stimuli as a Function of Repression-Sensitization
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Bergquist, William H.; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Memory, Perception
Conceptual Complexity and Susceptibility to Learned Helplessness.
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Harris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Examined the effects of escapable versus inescapable aversive stimuli (noise) on performance in relation to the conceptual complexity level of college students (N=60). Overall, results suggested that conceptual complexity level mediated the experience of learned helplessness. Conceptually complex students were less negatively affected than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
The Type A Behavior Pattern and Reactions to Uncontrollable Events.
Brunson, Bradford I. – 1980
Systematic investigations have verified the existence of a number of behavioral manifestations of the "Type A" behavior pattern. For example, brief exposure to salient uncontrollable stress has led to enhanced performance by Type A's on a subsequent task, whereas prolonged exposure has lead to performance deterioration. The ongoing experiences of…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Performance During the Stress of Processing Overload.
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Martin, David W. – 1980
Performance becomes degraded when the human processing system undergoes the stress of processing overload. Information processing models are often used to predict how performance will be affected. Single channel models hypothesize that information will either be lost in the queue or processed with delay. Single capacity models predict that for a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Emotional Response