Choking and excelling under pressure in experienced classifiers

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 924-935

  Worthy, Darrell A ^a   Markman, Arthur B ^a   W Todd, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ACHIEVEMENT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67650106919     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.924     Document Type: Article

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