Effect of distractors, age, and level of education upon psychomotor task learning
| Autor: | S. F. Wiker, Majid Jaraiedi, Diana J. Schwerha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Psychomotor learning
Mediation (statistics) education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Job design Human Factors and Ergonomics Resistance (psychoanalysis) behavioral disciplines and activities humanities Task (project management) Developmental psychology Task learning Distraction Relevance (information retrieval) Psychology psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. 37:801-809 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8141 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ergon.2007.07.005 |
| Popis: | Learning new manual assembly or procedures in the presence of distractions is common across industry. This research investigated the impact of age and years of formal education upon learning a manual assembly task in the presence of visual and auditory distractors in males and females ranging in age between 18 and 65 years. Subject age was significant in all analyses of learning metrics, with the oldest subjects’ performance particularly affected by the dual distractor condition. Learning, as evidenced by significant regression functions, was demonstrated only in the no distraction condition. Results indicate that reduction or elimination of irrelevant verbal or visuospatial distractors, comparable to those studied, could benefit older workers during early learning of psychomotor tasks. Relevance to industry With greater numbers of adults changing careers in mid to late-life, the ability to efficiently learn novel skills will become increasingly important. Determination of resistance to distractors during these early phases of learning manual assembly or psychomotor tasks will aid industry professionals in designing worker selection protocols, work design, distractor mediation strategies or training programs for all ages of workers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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