Predicting Target Detection Performance Using the Armed Services VocationalAptitude Battery Subtests and Cognitive Factor Tests

摘要

For this research, a simulation of a remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) SensorStation Operator situation was created in which soldiers who had completed initial training were required to seek and report targets-that appeared on a black and white TV screen. Targets were military vehicles, buildings, and other manmade objects that appeared in 90 of 1,440 photos taken from a helicopter flying over and near Fort Sill, OK. When transferred to videotape these photos appeared for 4.5 seconds, with a 15-second dark period between views. This process resulted in a 2-hour presentation that appeared to be an uninterrupted overflight. Subjects were also given six cognitive tests representing three cognitive factors (speed of closure, flexibility of closure, and perceptual speed), and ASVAB subtests were obtained and biographic information was collected. The speed of closure, measured by the Gestalt completion, Concealed Words, and Snowy Pictures tests--all of which are significantly correlated --and several biographic items correlated beyond the p=.05 level, but ASVAB test scores did not significantly correlate.