Psychophysiological Reactions to Mental Tasks: Effort or Stress?
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics
- Vol. 16 (1) , 61-67
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140137308924482
Abstract
The implications of the mental load model, used implicitly or explicitly by many investigators, appear to be inconsistent with many experimental results. It is demonstrated that a clearer picture emerges if the concept of arousal is taken into consideration.Keywords
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