Download or read book The Psychology of Fatigue written by Robert Hockey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and well-being, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally imposed goals; meaningful or self-initiated work is rarely tiring and often invigorating. In the first book dedicated to the systematic treatment of fatigue for over sixty years, Robert Hockey examines its many aspects - social history, neuroscience, energetics, exercise physiology, sleep and clinical implications - and develops a new motivational control theory, in which fatigue is treated as an emotion having a fundamental adaptive role in the management of goals. He then uses this new perspective to explore the role of fatigue in relation to individual motivation, working life and well-being.
Download or read book The Psychology of Fatigue written by Robert Hockey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic treatment of fatigue for 60 years, putting forward a new theory of its origins and functions.
Download or read book The Psychology of Fatigue written by Robert Hockey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and wellbeing, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally imposed goals; meaningful or self-initiated work is rarely tiring and often invigorating. In the first book dedicated to the systematic treatment of fatigue for over sixty years, Robert Hockey examines its many aspects - social history, neuroscience, energetics, exercise physiology, sleep and clinical implications - and develops a new motivational control theory, in which fatigue is treated as an emotion having a fundamental adaptive role in the management of goals. He then uses this new perspective to explore the role of fatigue in relation to individual motivation, working life and wellbeing.
Download or read book Cognitive Fatigue written by Phillip Lawrence Ackerman and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers human factors and ergonomics; clinical and applied differential psychology; and applications in industrial, military, and non-work domains.
Download or read book Burnout Fatigue Exhaustion written by Sighard Neckel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural phenomenon – is manifest in the epidemic rise of burnout, depression, and chronic fatigue. It provides innovative analyses of the complex interplay between the processes involved in the production of mental health diagnoses, socio-cultural transformations, and subjective illness experiences. Using many of the existing ideologically charged exhaustion theories as case studies, the authors investigate how individual discomfort and wider social dynamics are interrelated. Covering a broad range of topics, this book will appeal to those working in the fields of psychology, sociology, medicine, psychiatry, literature, and history.
Download or read book Psychology of Fatigue written by Robert Hockey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and wellbeing, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally imposed goals; meaningful or self-initiated work is rarely tiring and often invigorating. In the first book dedicated to the systematic treatment of fatigue for over sixty years, Robert Hockey examines its many aspects - social history, neuroscience, energetics, exercise physiology, sleep and clinical implications - and develops a new motivational control theory, in which fatigue is treated as an emotion having a fundamental adaptive role in the management of goals. He then uses this new perspective to explore the role of fatigue in relation to individual motivation, working life and wellbeing.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging written by Danan Gu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 5507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eight-volume encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging. It covers the breadth of the field, gives readers access to all major sub-fields, and illustrates their interconnectedness with other disciplines. With more than 1300 cross-disciplinary contributors—including anthropologists, biologists, economists, psychiatrists, public policy experts, sociologists, and others—the encyclopedia delves deep into key areas of gerontology and population aging such as ageism, biodemography, disablement, longevity, long-term care, and much more. Paying careful attention to empirical research and literature from around the globe, the encyclopedia is of interest to a wide audience that includes researchers, teachers and students, policy makers, (non)governmental agencies, public health practitioners, business planners, and many other individuals and organizations.
Download or read book The Psychology of Fatigue written by Bob Hockey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic treatment of fatigue for 60 years, putting forward a new theory of its origins and functions.
Download or read book Fatigue as a Window to the Brain written by John DeLuca and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and most popular of Blake's famous "Illuminated Books," in a facsimile edition reproducing all 31 brightly colored plates. Additional printed text of each poem. "The colors are lovely, the book is a joy." — Kliatt Paperback Book Guide.
Download or read book Stress Workload and Fatigue written by Peter A Hancock and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to seek out, describe, and explain the shared commonalities of stress, fatigue, and workload. To understand and predict human performance response, we have to reach beyond the sterile, information-processing models to incorporate the emotive, affective, or more generally, energetic aspects of cognition. These facets of behavior surface most readily when the individual acts under stress, is faced by significant cognitive workload, or is in the grip of fatigue. However, energetic characteristics are pervasive and exert a vital and ubiquitous influence, even when they are not obviously in play as in extreme circumstances. Indeed, one cannot hope to understand behavior without their inclusion and integration into models and theories. This text addresses such theoretical questions as one of its main thrusts. However, in addition to the drive for scientific understanding, there are requirements in our progressively more utilitarian society which generate the need for a more fundamental understanding of this particular topic.
Download or read book Frontal Fatigue written by Mark D Rego and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If technology is making modern life easier, why are we suffering from more stress and mental illness? In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who has practiced psychiatry in the community and taught at Yale for thirty years, explores why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology that was ostensibly created to improve our world. Using decades of experience and pioneering scientific research, Dr. Rego presents his innovative hypothesis of Frontal Fatigue, the background condition from which many of us now suffer. Frontal Fatigue exists when the unique pressures of modern life overwhelm the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brains that can make us susceptible to mental illness. Frontal Fatigue examines • why mental illness is increasing in modern times, • how the demands of our technology-centric lives place countless people at risk for mental illness and lacking in basic psychological well-being, • solutions for finding stability and peace within the noise of modern life. This astute perspective in the battle for our collective and individual peace of mind illustrates why mental illness is on the rise in these technologically advanced times and how we can act to adjust our lives in response.
Download or read book Mental Fatigue written by Max Offner and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Work and Fatigue and Individual Differences and Their Causes written by Edward Lee Thorndike and published by Horney Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME III MENTAL WORK AND FATIGUE AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND THEIR CAUSES COPYRIGHT 1914, BY EDWARD L. THORNDIKE PREFACE This third volume presents the results of psychological studies of mental work and fatigue in Part I, and of indi vidual differences and their causes in Part II. Part II is a revision of a book, Educational Psychology, which appeared in 1903 and, in revised form, in 1910. Part I is entirely new. The same procedure of introducing topics by means of re ports of typical investigations, presenting instructive evidence as well as conclusions, and discussing the important principles of quantitative treatment in each case adopted in the earlier volumes is maintained. Teachers College, Columbia University, November, 1913. CONTENTS PART I CHAITEX P AGB I. MENTAL WORK AND FATIGUE DEFINITIONS AND PROBLEMS i Mental Work versus Bodily Work Mental Work versus Play and Mere Activity The Concept of Mental Fatigue II. THE DECREASE IN EFFICIENCY OF A SINGLE FUNCTION UNDER CONTINUOUS EXERCISE 13 A Sample Experiment The Amount and Rate of Fatigue of a Single Function III. THE CURVE OF WORK 45 Initial Spurt End Spurt Spurt after Fatigue and Spurt after Disturbance Rhythm of Attention Other Rhythmical Fluctuations Warming Up Adaptation Summary Speculative Analyses of the Cunre of Work The Curve of Satisfyingness IV. THE INFLUENCE OF CONTINUOUS MENTAL WORK, SPECIAL OR GENERAL, UPON GENERAL ABILITY 79 Experimental Results The Symptoms of Mental Fatigue The Relations of Muscular Work and Fatigue to Mental Wprk and Fatigue Vlii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE V. GENERAL THEORIES OF MENTAL WORK AND FATIGUE m Definitions Dodges Theory of Mental Work The Mechanical or EnergyTheory and the Biological or Response Theory VI. THE HYGIENE OF MENTAL WORK 126 Means of Increasing Mental Efficiency Means of Preventing Injury frqm Over-work PART II VII. INTRODUCTION TO PART II 142 The Problems of Individual Differences A Concrete Illustration of the Problems of Individual Differences VIH. THE MEASUREMENT OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 152 Simple and Compound Differences Units and Scales for Measuring Mental Differ ences The Variability of a Mental Measurement Tables of Frequency or Distribution IX. THE INFLUENCE OF SEX . 169 Sex Differences in Ability . Sex Differences in Variability Sex Differences in Traits Not Measured Ob jectively - X. THE INFLUENCE OF REMOTE ANCESTRY OR RACE 206 A Sample Study of Racial Differences The Results, of Measurements of Racial Mental Differences The Interpretation of - the Differences between One Race and Another in Achievement CONTENTS ix CHAPTBBL f PAGE XI. THE INFLUENCE OF IMMEDIATE ANCESTRY OR FAMILY 225 The Variability of Individuals, of the Same Sex and Ancestry Methods of Measuring Resemblance Measurements of Resemblance in Related In dividuals The Specialization of the Influence of Near Ancestry The Analysis erf Mental Inheritance THE INFLUENCE OF MATURITY 270 Changes in Mental Traits with Age The Difficulties in Inferring Changes in In dividuals with Age from Differences be tween Old and Young Individuals XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT 281 Difficulties in Estimating the Amount of In fluence of the Environment Measurements of the Influence of the Environ ment The Method of Action of Differences in En vironment The Relative Importance of Original Nature and Environment XIV. THE NATURE AND AMOUNT OF INDIVIDUAL DIF FERENCES INSINGLE TRAITS 315 The Amounts of Difference in Different Traits The Continuity of Mental Variations The Relative Frequencies of Different Amounts of Difference The Chance or Probability Distribution in the case of Single Mental Traits X CONTENTS CXAPTX PAGB XV. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE AMOUNTS OF DIFFERENT TRAITS IN THE SAME INDIVIDUAL 347 The Measurement of Relations between Mental Traits The Relations between the Amounts of Dif ferent Traits in the Same Individual XVI...
Download or read book The Psychology of Power written by James Hadfield and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Power is a classic book in the field. This republished version contains everything in the original making this book available once again. Here is what you'll find inside. The Psychology of Power. The urgency of the problem of energy and fatigue. The view of the physicist, and of the religious. The psychological view. Evidence of Extraordinary Powers. Illustrated from various fields. Conclusions from these illustrations: (1) Existence of an ample re-supply of strength. (2) Not attained by power of will. (3) Originate in the instinctive emotions. The Mental Factor in Fatigue. I.Mental origin of fatigue demonstrated by - (a) Experiments in hypnotic suggestion. (b) Experiments in physiology. These prove the importance and priority of mental fatigue. Biological reasons why mind is fatigued before the body II.Forms of fatigue: (1) Physical fatigue. (2) Over-sensitiveness of mind to physical fatigue. Application of this to everyday life. (3) False interpretation of mental fatigue as physical. (4) Purely mental fatigue, due to mental conflict. The Infirmity of the Will. Power does not originate in the will. Illustrations to prove impotence of will against conviction and suggestion. Evil habits unconquered. Will requires power of the emotions. The Instincts. The force of ideas; will; emotions. Instinctive emotions the real driving force of our lives. The importance of instincts in modern life. Policy of suppression a false one. Passion necessary in morality and religion. The Instincts and Morality. Is power derived from the instincts moral? (1) Many instincts in themselves beneficent, e.g. maternal (2) Instincts apparently anti-social may be directed to useful ends. (3) In the long run the maximum power is gained when instincts are harmonized and directed by the reason toward worthy ends. The Conflict of Instincts. Of will and emotion: of emotion with emotion.Illustration. Minor conflicts exemplified in worry and anxiety. The Conversion of the Instincts. Living beings raise the potential of energy. Illustration of the conversion of the instincts and instinctive emotions. Hunting:curiosity; pugnacity Fear: necessary fear; morbid fear; fear that stimulates. Sex: its overflow into the parental instinct. Self-assertion: aggression; submission; confidence. Confidence and Faith. Derived from instincts of self-assertion. Essential to success and power. Illustrations. The Expenditure of Power. Damming up the flow of energy leads to stagnation and fatigue. The inspiration of a purpose. Strength comes to those who expend it. Energy and Rest. The cause of fatigue in mental conflict. The remedy is mental quietude. The characteristic neurasthenic. Physiological law of alternation of activity and rest. The art of resting. The Source of Energy. Physiological, psychological, and philosophical theories. Summary. The Dynamic of Religion. The power of the Christian religion in abolishing conflict and directing the instinctive energies to high purposes. Power characteristic of primitive Christianity. Restfulness and peace also characteristic. Christianity as a moral healing force. Conclusion.
Download or read book Endurance Performance in Sport written by Carla Meijen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athletes participating at all levels of endurance performance can relate to the impact of psychological factors. Whether it is motivation, self-belief, feeling nervous before a race, exercise-induced pain, sticking to a pacing strategy, or thoughts around what to focus on, there are a vast number of psychological factors which can affect endurance performance. Bringing together experts in the field from around the world, this is the first text to provide a detailed overview of the psychology of endurance performance where there is a research and an applied focus looking at both main theoretical models as well as how interventions can support an athlete’s efficacy and well-being. The authors look at regulatory processes around pain, decision-making, self-belief, emotions, and meta-cognition, before examining a range of cognitive strategies, including the use of imagery, goals, self-talk, and mindfulness techniques. With a final section of the book outlining issues related to mental health that are relevant to endurance performance, the book shows that the future of research and application of psychological theory in endurance performance in sport is bright and thriving. Aimed at researchers, students, coaches, and athletes themselves, this is essential reading for anyone wishing to better understand how our minds experience endurance in performance arenas, and what psychological techniques can be used to make us more efficient.
Download or read book Fatigue in Aviation written by John A. Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition includes fatigue and sleep definitions as well as strategies for the measurement and assessment of fatigue. The aviation performance, mood, and safety problems associated with sleep restriction and circadian disruptions in operational settings are highlighted. The biological bases of fatigue are discussed so that the reader can understand that it is a real physiological phenomenon and not 'just a state of mind'. Both traditional and newly-developed scientifically-valid countermeasures are presented, and a variety of data from diverse sources are included to provide readers with a 'toolbox' from which they can choose the best solutions for the fatigue-related problems that exist in their unique operational context. In addition, an essential overview of Fatigue Risk Management Systems is included to provide the basic structure necessary to build and validate a modern, integrated approach to successful fatigue management. The book is of interest to aviation crews in both civilian and military sectors--managers as well as pilots, flight crews, and maintainers. It aims to be user-friendly, although scientific information is included to help the reader fully understand the 'fatigue phenomenon' from an evidence-based perspective as well as to enhance the reader's appreciation for the manner in which various counter-fatigue interventions are helpful.
Download or read book Willpower written by Roy F. Baumeister and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. "Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't, and how to build it. A terrific read." —Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Management, Director of Center for Customer Insights Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. Drawing on cutting-edge research and the wisdom of real-life experts, Willpower shares lessons on how to focus our strength, resist temptation, and redirect our lives. It shows readers how to be realistic when setting goals, monitor their progress, and how to keep faith when they falter. By blending practical wisdom with the best of recent research science, Willpower makes it clear that whatever we seek—from happiness to good health to financial security—we won’t reach our goals without first learning to harness self-control.
