ABSTRACT
This chapter explains measuring effects of psychological stress on cognitive functioning important in the field of psychological stress and coping. Much coping is cognition intensive, comprising information processing about counter-stress options in order to ascertain the most advantageous, stress-mitigating selections. Stochastic modeling of relations between stress and cognitive performance, to a large extent, invokes parametric stochastic distributions. As for longevity and proliferation, the elongated half-life and far-reaching impact of Jim's work on clinical science including clinical cognitive neuroimaging are self-evident. Millar studied performance on a Sternberg memory-search task taking place under noise stress. Processing capacity and structure of the apparatus in which it operates are two of the more prominent constructs in this field and are shown to be accessible to modeling, to model testing, and to individual-difference assessment. The stress-related differences in distributions of individual capacity values noted earlier are manifest on a final common pathway provided by Townsend and colleagues' Systems Factorial Technology.
