Selection of Air Traffic Controllers

Sells, S. B.; Dailey, John T.; Pickrel, Evan W.

doi:10.1037/e619642009-001

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“…Work that involves substantial attentional effort (Gf) and comparatively lower levels of Gc, such as the job of an air traffic controller, places very high demands on Gf and also shows the most diminished performance with age (Sells, Dailey, & Pickrel, 1984). By congressional mandate, one cannot even train to become an air traffic controller after the age of thirty-one.…”

Section: Impact Of Age-related Changes In Cognition On Motivationmentioning

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Aging, Adult Development, and Work Motivation

Kanfer

Ackerman

2004

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We describe a framework for understanding how age-related changes in adult development affect work motivation, and, building on recent lifespan theories and research on cognitive abilities, personality, affect, vocational interests, values, and self-concept, identify four intraindividual change trajectories (loss, gain, reorganization, and exchange). We discuss implications of the integrative framework for the use and effectiveness of different motivational strategies with midlife and older workers in a variety of jobs, as well as abiding issues and future research directions.

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Section: Impact Of Age-related Changes In Cognition On Motivationmentioning

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Aging, Adult Development, and Work Motivation

Kanfer

Ackerman

2004

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“…Most relevant to ATC, Dollar and Schroeder (2004) have shown that both those who seek training as air traffic controllers and those who succeed at that training share certain personality characteristics. Finally, we included age (Sells, Dailey, & Pickrel, 1984;Touron, Hoyer, & Cerella, 2001) and gender (Halpern, 2000) as demographic variables.…”

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Does Situation Awareness Add to the Validity of Cognitive Tests?

2006

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“…As noted earlier, individual differences in such an ability are suggested by the attrition in ATC and 911 training programs. 1 However, we do not know whether this reflects the lack of a general ability for high-speed decision making or 1 There is a reported 29% attrition rate in ATC training (Sells, Dailey, & Pickrel, 1984), which is comparable to that estimated in public safety dispatch training (25%). This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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Evaluating individual differences in response to time-pressure situations.

Joslyn¹,

Hunt²

1998

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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The ability to make decisions within a few seconds to a couple of minutes is the hallmark of many applied situations ranging from air traffic control to stock market trading. The 5 studies reported here explore the hypothesis that there are abstract psychological demands common to many rapid decision-making situations. The authors suggest that these characteristics can be used to identify people who are good rapid decision makers. People were trained to operate computer simulations of the job skills involved in air traffic control and 2 aspects of public safety dispatch. Although these tasks are very different on the surface, they all require decision making under time pressure. Performance was successfully predicted from performance on an abstract decision-making task.

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Selection of Air Traffic Controllers

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Aging, Adult Development, and Work Motivation

Aging, Adult Development, and Work Motivation

Does Situation Awareness Add to the Validity of Cognitive Tests?

Evaluating individual differences in response to time-pressure situations.

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