[A study of psychological stress: observations of serial performance under the stress induced experimentally by different kind of procedures (author's transl)].
This paper aims to investigate the common changes observed in serial performance irrespective of any stressors experimentally prepared, examining the relations between common changes under stress and personal types of performance. Sixty-six students served as subjects. Measurements of serial reaction time, variance in speed of performance, blockings, corrections, errors, omissions and repetitions were made on simple color naming (experimentally non-stress), competitive color naming (stressor, incongruent stimuli) and high-speed color naming (stressor, controlled high-speed). The results showed that stressors of different kinds induced common changes and the indices of stress implied magnified features of personal types of performance. These findings were discussed in terms of Selye's theory of stress.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*