Download or read book Skill Acquisition and Human Performance written by Robert W. Proctor and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a coherent picture of how research on skills is conducted, this volume brings together findings from a number of disciplines to enrich our current understanding of human skills. Taking an information-processing approach, the authors provide an historical and conceptual introduction and examine research studies in which comparatively simple laboratory tasks are used to investigate skill. They then consider performance of more complex tasks that impose greater demands on attention and memory. The book concludes by focusing on expertise in specific real-world situations, discussing applications to areas such as: training; the role of individual differences in abilities; situational performance-shaping factors; and th