APRO Technical Research Note

APRO Technical Research Note
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Behavior and Systems Research Laboratory
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Total Pages: 532
Release: 1961
Genre: Military research
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Report

Report
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Total Pages: 676
Release: 1962
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Abstracts of U.S. APRO Research Publications

Abstracts of U.S. APRO Research Publications
Author: Emma E. Brown
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Total Pages: 60
Release: 1966
Genre: Psychology
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Contents: Abstracts of FY 1966 research publications (Technical research reports, Technical research notes, Research studies, Research memorandums); Research tasks, U.S. Army Personnel Research Office; Depository libraries; Army personnel programs utilizing psychological research test products of the U.S. Army Personnel Research Office.

Nomograms for Army Manpower Policy Evaluation

Nomograms for Army Manpower Policy Evaluation
Author: Pauline T. Olson
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Total Pages: 104
Release: 1966
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The report presents two sets of nomograms or charts developed on the basis of a series of eight manpower flow models to represent steady-state allocations for various tour lengths and types of assignment in CONUS and overseas. The charts can be used by management personnel to arrive at estimates of effects of a given policy alternative without recourse to a computer or mathematical formulation. Instructions for using the charts, the basic personnel system model, developmental algebraic equations, and an index for locating the appropriate nomogram for a given problem are provided.

Prediction of Vigilance

Prediction of Vigilance
Author: D. A. Dobbins
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Total Pages: 44
Release: 1961
Genre: Automobile driving
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"This report describes the second of two studies of vigilance in connection with a road test sponsored by the American Association of State Highway Officials and administered by the Highway Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Army drivers operated trucks over experimental highways (Nov 1958 to Nov 1960) under conditions conducive to boredom and fatigue -- characteristic of many Army monitoring jobs. The primary objective of this study was to determine which, if any, of several well-known psychological domains hold most promise for prediction of vigilance performance. A total of 39 predictor and 2 reference measures, grouped into 8 predictor clusters and a single reference cluster, were administered. In general, both reliability and validity coefficients were low. The most promising predictors were the Personality, Personal History, Driver Aptitude, and Perceptual Speed clusters. The Cognitive, Physical, Psychomotor, and Attitudinal clusters were least promising. In spite of large and fairly stable individual differences in detection performance, the highly specific nature of the criterion and possible subject-task interaction appears to restrict the utility of standard general psychological predictors. Measures paralleling more closely parameters of the criterion task -- signal rates, intersignal intervals, sensory modes -- might be expected to show greater promise."--Abstract.