The effects of task difficulty and workload on trainingFour hypotheses regarding the possible effects of workload and task difficulty on training are proposed. These are: (1) increased levels of task difficulty will facilitate learning to the extent that these increases are (a) resource loading and (b) intrinsic to the component task to be learned; (2) decrease of task difficulty will facilitate learning to the extent that these decreases (a) reduce the resource load and (b) are extrinsic of the component task to be learned; (3) the lerner's tendency to conserve resources may bead to the adoption of undesirable, short-term, low resource strategies early in training; and (4) the effect of changes in resource demand on learning will depend upon the similarity of the resource whose demand is changed to the resource involved in learning.
Document ID
19870045783
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Mane, Amir (Illinois Univ. Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States)
Wickens, Christopher D. (Illinois, University Urbana, United States)