Identification of Preferred Response Modality on Visual Perception and Cognitive Tasks of Basic Enlisted Submarine School Students
Abstract
This study investigated whether or not two different types of response (oral versus written) on a battery of visual perceptual tasks result in significant differences in performance in submarine school students. Secondly, the study compared their written performance to the performance in a past research investigation with submarine sonar operators using the same battery. The visual perceptual and cognitive tasks included a broad selection of visual perceptual abilities, such a speed of closures, flexibility of closure, spatial orientation perceptual speed, and induction. Several non-perceptual measures were compared with sonar operator's study, including the General Classification Test (GCT), Arithmetic Test, and age. The submarine school students demonstrated similar performance in the two response modalities on all but one of the visual perceptual and cognitive tests. Only the flexibility of closure task, as measured by ETS's Hidden Pattern Test, showed a significant difference in performance: the written response produced a significantly higher level of performance than the oral responses for the students. Also, their performance on several of the visual perceptual and cognitive tasks, as well as on a non- perceptual variable, was significantly different from that of the sonar operators.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA162788
Entities
People
- Alma P. Ryan
- Essie P. Knuckle
Organizations
- Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory