A description of each strategy is followed by a timeline for introduction and techniques for
increasing task difficulty over time.
The researchers induced variations in the degree of demand on these brain regions — a method of assessing how genetic risk might impair the brain's ability to respond to attention challenges — by
varying task difficulty.
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As task difficulty increased, there was a linear increase in movement that was larger among subjects with lower cognitive ability.»
The difference in results obtained in the two tasks designed to test reference memory (cross maze and water maze) indicated that the disturbance depended
on task difficulty rather than on a particular memory component.
First, we found that
perceived task difficulty explains the relationship between sales performance failure and pushy, sales - oriented behaviors.
Results showed that participants with GWI performed significantly slower and less accurately than matched healthy veterans, and their efficiency decreased with
increasing task difficulty.
Kessler Foundation scientists tested this assumption in 34 persons with MS by examining whether head movement was related to
task difficulty and cognitive status.
«Everyone, including the highly distractible people, who reported higher levels of ADHD symptoms and who responded up to 41 % slower when the cartoon distractor was present, benefited from increasing
the task difficulty, which may be contrary to common expectations,» says Lavie.
The MS group had an increase in activation at low
task difficulty and a decrease in activation at high task difficulty.
Conversely, in the control group, activation decreased with low
task difficulty and increased with high task difficulty.
A comprehensive computerised six - task cognitive test battery, the profile of mood states questionnaire and the symptom questionnaire (headache, concentration and
task difficulty) were administered during each trial.
Components of explicit instruction include reviewing prior knowledge, adjusting the level of
task difficulty, breaking down new material into small parts, providing clear descriptions, models, and examples of a skill, supporting sufficient amounts of practice, giving timely feedback, monitoring progress, and gradually withdrawing support as students become proficient.
Energy resource depletion,
task difficulty, and cardiovascular response to a mental arithmetic challenge.
The lessons in Funēmics include many of these instructional components: attention to sequencing, segmentation, control of
task difficulty, modeling, practice and repetition, and review.
Companies that provide forums for user - generated online content have to strike a balance between these two sides of the internet,
a task the difficulty of which is vastly underestimated.