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On the relation between abilities, learning, and human performance.
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In this paper, the author's research efforts to link basic and applied psychology concepts in each of the following areas: aptitude measurement, learning and training, and human task performance.Abstract:
Describes the author's research efforts to link basic and applied psychology concepts in each of the following areas: aptitude measurement, learning and training, and human task performance. Several studies are described in detail to illustrate a number of broad issues, particularly the possibilityread more
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Motivation and cognitive abilities: an integrative/aptitude-treatment interaction approach to skill acquisition
Ruth Kanfer,Phillip L. Ackerman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two experiences mettent a l'epreuve un modele prenant en compte les differences dans les capacites cognitives, les processus auto-regulateurs de la motivation and les exigences de traitement de l'information.
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The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics
Diane F. Halpern,Camilla Persson Benbow,David C. Geary,Ruben C. Gur,Janet Shibley Hyde,Morton Ann Gernsbacher +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that early experience, biological factors, educational policy, and cultural context affect the number of women and men who pursue advanced study in science and math and that these effects add and interact in complex ways.
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Determinants of individual differences during skill acquisition: Cognitive abilities and information processing.
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Historical review and appraisal of research on the learning, retention, and transfer of human motor skills.
TL;DR: A review of nearly a century of research on motor skills is presented in this paper, where the main topics are knowledge of results, distribution of practice, transfer of training, retention, and individual differences in motor learning.
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Emotional exhaustion and job performance: The mediating role of motivation.
TL;DR: In 2 time-lagged samples, the authors found that motivation mediates the emotional exhaustion-job performance relationship and participants appear to target their investment of resources in response to emotional exhaustion to develop social support through social exchange.
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The two disciplines of scientific psychology.
TL;DR: The last speaker who could securely bring the whole of psychology within one perspective was Dashiell, with his 1938 address on "Rapprochements in Contemporary Psychology" as discussed by the authors.
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Conditions of Learning
Abstract: Robert Gagné was an American educational psychologist who's ideas of conditions of learning and instructional design implications were first introduced in 1965. Gagné assumed that there are different types of learning outcomes, each of which is best achieved through its specific instructional design, but also that there is a set of steps required in every learning environment (sometimes also known as the Gagné Assumption).
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A study of job characteristics and job dimensions as based on the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ).
TL;DR: The Position Analysis Questionnaires (PAQ) as mentioned in this paper was developed to identify behaviorial job elements and their organization into job dimensions, and the exploration of certain possible practical applications of job data based on such job elements or dimensions.