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TRACKING PERFORMANCE UNDER THREAT‐INDUCED STRESS
Author(s) -
Bergström Bengt
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1970.tb00724.x
Subject(s) - habituation , arousal , psychology , stress (linguistics) , tracking (education) , missile , cognitive psychology , term (time) , social psychology , neuroscience , engineering , aerospace engineering , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Operator tracking performance in 3 simulated guided missile systems was studied under short‐term psychological stress induced by threatening with and also delivering unpleasant electric shocks. The initial part of the stress period was characterized by a moderate decrement of performance and a heightened arousal level, which is regarded as a partial confirmation of the activation theory. The results may also be interpreted in terms of a simple stress‐over‐time model, based on a hypothetical interaction between arousal and habituation.