Effects of group discussion on acquisition of complex skills

Human Factors

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 404-416

  Prislin, Radmila ^a,b,d   Jordan, Jeffrey A ^a   Worchel, Stephen ^a,e   Semmer, Franziska Tschan ^a,c   Shebilske, Wayne L ^a,f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f St Luke's Sinai Samaritan Med C   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE OVERLOAD; COMPLEX SKILLS TASK; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION EXCHANGE ORIENTATION; TRAINING PROTOCOLS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; SKILL;

EID: 0030249289     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872096778701999     Document Type: Article

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