Discriminative Environmental Properties in Terrorist Environments: A basis for Training

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to identify and describe environmental and contextual cues that are available to experienced security force personnel and that may be associated with terrorist threat, to establish the discriminative stimulus properties of these cues and the characteristics of their relationships to relevant behavior, and to develop a rationale for designing training techniques. All evidence from the work suggests that cues that might give warning are present in all of the incidents investigated, although their recognition may require vigilance or recognition of the significance of 'normal' event in the context of the activities in question. Keywords: Terrorism/warning; Security personnel; Terrorists behavior; Crime analysis; Ireland; Training/cueing/discrimination.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA226451

Entities

People

  • Maxwell Taylor

Organizations

  • University College Cork

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Group Dynamics
  • Identification
  • Military Research
  • Police
  • Recognition
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Training
  • United States
  • Victims

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design