The current study reports on the development and validation of the Academic Diligence Task (ADT), designed to assess the tendency to expend effort on academic tasks which are tedious in the moment but valued in the long-term.
Along these lines, unlike participants shown a neutral video, participants shown a funny video after the difficult version of the task mentioned above were just as likely to expend energy in the second task as participants who had engaged in the easy version of the task.
Moreover, pooling disparate information was an onerous task, and no firm had the desire to expend resources on such an effort.
Perhaps they have more teaching and pastoral tasks assigned to them and consequently have less time to expend on writing the applications.
My point is that becoming an expert is so challenging that you are unlikely to expend the necessary effort unless the task is one that you love for its own sake.
Robert Frank of The New York Times said in a recent article: "My point is that becoming an expert is so challenging that you are unlikely to expend the necessary effort unless the task is one that you love for its own sake.
The purpose of this task was to examine the physical effort participants were willing to expend to view specific images and to relate this to their subsequent subjective liking ratings of the images.
In contrast, the animals in replication 2 were tested on an effort-based decision-making task, which assesses how much physical effort animals are prepared to expend to gain reward (Rudebeck et al., 2006b).
In a novel, complementary behavioral task outside the scanner, we measured the effort volunteers were willing to expend (on a grip force transducer) to view images of different types and whether drug treatment affected this effort measure and subjectively rated "liking" responses.
In Mark's case we see the same gray T-shirt on a daily basis, with his rationale being that a consistent (and incredibly casual) clothing choice results in him having to expend less mental effort, therefore enabling him to put his mind to the key task of his day — running Facebook.
He simply had no energy left to expend.
