Download or read book Effects of Mental Practice on Tank Gunnery Performance written by John E. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Mental Practice on Tank Gunnery Performance written by John E. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of the present research were (a) to determine whether mental practice instruction enhances gunnery skill acquisition, and (b) to identify individual differences that relate to the use and effectiveness of mental practice. Three measures of individual differences were obtained: (a) the GT composite from the ASVAB, (b) Rotter's (1966) Internal/External (I/E) Scale, and (c) Betts' Questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery. Intact platoons of entry-level soldiers were assigned to either an experimental group that received mental practice instruction in addition to their normal gunnery training on the Institutional Conduct-of-Fire Trainer (I-COFT) or to a control group who received only normal I-COFT gunnery training. Students were pretested on their gunnery skills using a standardized I-COFT exercise. Students also completed a questionnaire that assessed their use and evaluation of mental practice techniques. Results from the questionnaire indicated that soldiers in the control group mentally rehearsed gunnery without instruction to do so, although soldiers in the experimental group were more likely to use commonly prescribed mental practice techniques. Two problems, however, make it difficult to reach conclusions about the effectiveness of mental practice in this experiment: (a) students in the control group spontaneously used mental practice group in gunnery performance may have masked any gains due to mental practice.
Download or read book Assessing the Impact of Mental Category on Simulated Tank Gunnery Performance written by Scott E. Graham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research evaluated the effects of mental ability on the gunnery performance of 19K One Station Unit Training (OSUT) soldiers. Five hundred forty-seven soldiers were given a 35-engagement tank gunnery test on the high- fidelity Institutional-Conduct of Fire Trainer (I-COFT). The I-COFT test included offensive and defensive engagements fired in normal and degraded operational modes. The primary analysis compared speed and accuracy performance as a function of mental category as derived from General Technical (GT) scores. The test scores were also used a parameter estimates in a soldier performance model based on Lanchester-type combat attrition models. OSUT soldiers with higher mental ability were faster and more accurate on the I-COFT test than were soldiers with lower mental ability. Mental category I & II soldiers hit 14% more targets than category IV soldiers and were 2 seconds faster. The effects of mental ability were relatively the same for both normal and degraded mode exercises. Analyses based on the soldier performance model indicated that category IV soldiers performed at 73% of category I & II soldiers. Keywords: Armor; Personnel selection; Gunnery prediction; Unit conduct of fire trainer; Performance(human).
Download or read book Technical Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designing a Gunnery Training Strategy written by John E. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Mind s Eye written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archer stands and pulls back the bow, visualizing the path of the arrow to the target. Does this mental exercise enhance performance? Can we all use such techniques to improve performance in our daily lives? In the Mind's Eye addresses these and other intriguing questions. This volume considers basic issues of performance, exploring how techniques for quick learning affect long-term retention, whether an expert's behavior can serve as a model for beginners, if team performance is the sum of individual members' performances, and whether subliminal learning has a basis in science. The book also considers meditation and some other pain control techniques. Deceit and the ability to detect deception are explored in detail. In the area of self-assessment techniques for career development, the volume evaluates the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Download or read book List of U S Army Research Institute Research and Technical Publications written by U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project Summaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training for Performance written by John E. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents recent theory and research related to the multifaceted processes of training. Authoritative American and British researchers summarize traditional areas in training such as skill acquisition, transfer and retention. Relatively new topics including individual differences, social and organizational factors are also considered. The emphasis is on current theory and research on human learning and performance as it relates to training.
Download or read book Research Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Tank Crew Turbulence on Tank Gunnery Performance written by Newell K. Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Reports Annual Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AR 350 53 06 19 2014 COMPREHENSIVE SOLDIER AND FAMILY FITNESS Survival Ebooks written by Us Department Of Defense and published by Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AR 350-53 06/19/2014 COMPREHENSIVE SOLDIER AND FAMILY FITNESS , Survival Ebooks
Download or read book The Effects of Easy To Difficult Difficult Only and Mixed Difficulty Practice on Performance of Simulated Gunnery Tasks written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to compare the effects of practicing easy-todifficult, difficult-only, and randomly ordered, mixed-difficulty training exercises. The experimental task required tracking and shooting moving targets with TOPGUN, which is a tank-gunnery training device. Each of three groups of 20 undergraduates practiced three blocks of 36 exercises under one of three conditions: (1) easy-todifficult progression of exercises, (2) all difficult exercises, or (3) randomly ordered, mixed-difficulty exercises. All groups were tested on 36 randomly ordered, mixed-difficulty exercises immediately after training. Dependent variables were target hits, aiming error, and time to fire. Results were that (1) learning occurred during practice; (2) mean differences among the groups' test scores were not statistically significant; (3) the group that practiced the easy-to-difficult progression and the group that practiced the randomly ordered, mixed-difficulty exercises hit significantly greater percentages of easy targets during testing than did the group that practiced only difficult exercises; and (4) the group that practiced the easy to-difficult progression hit significantly greater percentages of difficult targets during testing than did the group that practiced the randomly ordered, mixed-difficulty exercises.
Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Mental Practice on Skill Acquisition written by Ronald Gary Kendis and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tank Gunnery written by Roland J. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examined the effect of TopGun training on main gun M60A3 tank gunnery performance as measured on the Conduct-of-Fire Trainer (COFT) . Three groups of 16 Reserve Component (RC) soldiers were compared using a transfer of training design. Firing under auxiliary sighting conditions, the groups differed on the number of TopGun training sessions (0, 1, or 3) they had before completing a testing session on COFT. Results showed that gunnery speed and accuracy on stationary and moving targets improved during TopGun training and that prior training on TopGun improved subsequent performance on COFT in terms of increased accuracy on stationary target engagements. TopGun performance was also found to be a reliable predictor of COFT performance, with greater correlations found for speed than for accuracy. This report outlines a TopGun- based training strategy for increasing the probability of positive transfer to moving targets, as well as to stationary targets, and for enhancing the overall payoff obtained from TopGun training within the RC.
