Strength and Resistance to Interference in Practiced Recognition: Memory-Retrieval Abilities Investigated through Latent Structure Modeling

Abstract

In support of improving general research practices and USAF selection procedures, AFRL/HEAI has documented AFOSR- sponsored research leading to the acceptance for publication of "Memory-retrieval abilities investigated through latent structure modeling" in the American Journal of Psychology (expected 2001, vol. 114). While the paper examines issues in cognitive and differential psychology (a necessity for publishing in this kind of journal), the AF relevant part of the article is methodological. The paper shows how a criterion can be decomposed, by careful design of part tasks, into a set of hypothetical abilities important for the criterion. Latent structure modeling is then applied to assess both the reality and the importance of the underlying abilities to the criterion. This methodology provides a structured, potentially job-tailored, approach to selection test construction and validation. This work is legacy work from closing work units. There is no active selection research at AFRL.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382702

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  • Scott R. Chaiken

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  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Data Science
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Materials
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Recognition
  • Regression Analysis
  • Resistance

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