"The frustration with performance appraisal is certainly understandable," Murphy said, "but if alternatives become more subjective and less attention is given to reducing bias, there is potential for serious problems down the road".
Brain imagery reveals the parts of the brain involved in subjective experience, focused attention and perception (pp. 160 165).
An eye tracker was employed to measure each participant's experimental data; in addition, subjective evaluation of attention was conducted.
The participants' fixation duration, fixation frequency, and subjective evaluation of attention were analyzed through two-way ANOVA.
Visual analogue scales were presented at the beginning and end of the session to assess subjective measures of attention, fatigue, discomfort and pain.
This approach actively involves "…the participant in generating and describing specific and stable experiential or phenomenal categories" and can "…provide a way for experimenters to better control and identify the subjective aspects of attention and emotion regulatory processes" [ 11].
For example, there is strong evidence that cognitive training (CT) can lead to improvement of cognitive functions in healthy older adults; eg, in immediate and delayed memory, speed of processing, executive functions, fluid intelligence, visual reasoning, visuospatial construction, attention, subjective cognitive performance, and neuropsychological status.
It is worth noting that during the subjective test, the evaluators' attention is also predominantly selective to the video content being watched.
Participants: Outpatients (n=82) with subjective complaints of poor attention or memory, confirmed by a score <80th percentile in at least two tests of the Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRBNT).
It appears barriers include lack of knowledge surrounding questionnaires, methods and terminology, and too little attention to subjective information [ 4, 5].
In order to better understand the relationship between partnership status and subjective well-being, special attention will be paid to the issue of using legal marital status rather than current partnership status as a measure.
