Anticipated,experienced, and remembered subjective effort and discomfort on sustained attention versus working memory tasks |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada;2. Division of Clinical Psychology, Graduate Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Chang Gung University, No. 259, Wenhua 1st Road, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan;3. Department of Child Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No. 5, Fuxing Street, Taoyuan 33305, Taiwan;1. Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK;2. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK;1. Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada;1. Département de Psychologie, Université de Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland;2. Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, 13331 Marseille, France |
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| Abstract: | This study examined individuals’ ability to accurately anticipate how cognitively effortful and uncomfortable a task will feel based on a short sample of the task. Participants completed a sustained attention or working memory task. Post-practice, participants rated the effort and discomfort that they anticipated their task would require and engender, respectively. Participants also rated their effort and discomfort during task-administration and the effort and discomfort they recalled feeling after task-administration. Sustained attention task participants anticipated significantly less effort than working memory task participants. Sustained attention task participants felt significantly more effort during the task and remembered feeling more effort than they had anticipated. Working memory task participants felt significantly less effort during the task than they had anticipated. Sustained attention task participants anticipated, experienced, and recalled feeling more discomfort than working memory task participants. Individuals’ anticipation of effort required depends on the task and is different from the effort they actually feel during the task and later recall feeling. |
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| Keywords: | Anticipation Subjective experience Cognitive effort Discomfort Sustained attention Working memory |
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