Effective Training for Target Identification Under Degraded Conditions
Abstract
This experiment explored the relevance of the psychological concept of overshadowing to military target identification training. The concept predicts that the most outstanding distinctive feature of a target will capture the attention of the trainee, who will pay little attention to other features. This prediction implies that soldiers will have a difficult time identifying degraded targets unless specifically trained on degraded targets. The experimental procedure was to force attention on more and more features of the targets by progressively covering the outstanding features. Results confirmed the relevance of overshadowing and suggested that most training should concentrate on degraded views. Psychologists interested in perception and in military target identification training are the intended audience for this report.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA071085
Entities
People
- John T. Cockrell
Organizations
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences