โ Scribed by Dr. Michael W. Eysenck (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The thinker who has a mortal fear of being wrong will give all that is valuable in himself to that little ambition. Walter Lippmann (1914) Psychology has always been plagued by passing fads and fanยญ cies to a greater extent than is seemly in a scientific discipline. Over the past few years the Zeitgeist can be summed up by the two words 'cognitive psychology'. Indeed, a recent poll of academic psychologists in American indicated that over 80% of them regarded themselves as cognitive psychologists! Cognitive psychology is in the ascendant, but it has never been clear to me that it has addressed all of the appropriate isยญ sues. In particular, information processing in the real world (and even in the laboratory) occurs within a motivational and emotional context, but cognitive psychologists usually mainยญ tain the convenient fiction that cognition can fruitfully be studยญ ied in isolation. The main reason for writing this book was to atยญ tempt to demonstrate that there can be a useful cross-fertilizaยญ tion between cognitive and motivational-emotional psycholoยญ gy and that there are already tantalizing glimpses of the potenยญ tial advantages of such inter-disciplinary research. The ideas of Donald Broadbent and his associates have exerยญ cised a formative influence during the writing of this book. They discovered some years ago that there are intriguing simiยญ larities (as well as differences) in the effects on performance of such apparently quite disparate factors as white noise, time of day, introversion-extraversion and incentive.
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Theories of Attention....Pages 8-27
Theories of Processing Resources....Pages 28-46
Theories of Arousal and Performance....Pages 47-66
Incentives and Motivation....Pages 67-94
Anxiety and Performance....Pages 95-123
Endogenous Determinants of Arousal....Pages 124-155
Exogenous Determinants of Arousal: Noise....Pages 156-172
Conclusions and Speculations....Pages 173-186
References....Pages 187-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-209
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