Dimensions of Performance Assessment and Skill Development.
Abstract
The research goal of this contract was the development of techniques which might be applied to complex flight trainers on-line to provide: (1) diagnostic measures of learning difficulties and (2) remedial steps to overcome the difficulties. Three phenomena -- response blocking, filtering and queuing -- appeared to be especially useful as a source of diagnostic measures. In the latter case, the signals become lost or distorted. All three phenomena are well-known as detrimental stress responses in the learning of complex tasks. It appears that response blocking may occur whenever there is a competition either between (1) processes which are required to act upon the same data or between (2) responses to the output of a single process when, in each case, the competitive elements can only operate one at a time. Within the general theoretical framework, the most important competitive processes are: storing in short-term memory vs. retrieval from short-term memory; retrieval from short-term memory vs. translation from one stimulus code to another; and translation from one stimulus code to another vs. translation from a stimulus code to a response code.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 30, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA021100
Entities
People
- Warren H. Teichner
Organizations
- New Mexico State University