These determinants appear to influence performance largely through the acquisition and usage of job knowledge and the motivation to do well.

Socioeconomic status can also influence performance rates once at a university.

While these behaviors are not formally part of the job description, performing them can certainly influence performance appraisals.

On today's machines, the layout of processors and memory, the layout of data in memory, the communication load on the various elements of the multiprocessor architecture all influence performance.

The use of multiple tasks simultaneously in an experiment can also demonstrate the generality of spatial attention, as allocation of attention to one task can influence performance in other tasks.