SGER: Training to Minimize the Decay of Knowledge and Skills

该项目的重点是制定知识和技能的培训程序，使其能够经受住主要任务或背景的变化，从而在平民生活和军事中的紧急情况下产生灵活、高效和持久的业绩。建议的实验考察了在动态和变化的任务环境中的表现。将创建一组复杂的并发任务，类似于熟练使用完全计算机化控制和通信系统的数字操作员所遇到的任务。在这一范式下，将进行两项实验。其中之一将集中在一个并发持续时间估计任务上，特别是该任务中对声明性信息和程序性信息的不同遗忘功能。在第二个实验中，将测试一个提出的记忆收缩原理，根据该原理，在给定的背景下，最容易提取和使用知识的时间跨度随着压力水平的增加而缩短。拟议实验的更广泛影响是有效利用应急反应和反应的培训技能，这些技能随着时间的推移而持续存在。这对参与国土安全的每个人来说尤其重要，因为培训可能是零星的。

The focus of this project is to develop training procedures for knowledge and skill that will survive primary task or background changes and, thereby, produce flexible, as well as efficient and durable, performance in emergency situations both in civilian life and in the military. The proposed experiments examine performance in dynamic and changing task environments. A complex set of concurrent tasks will be created analogous to those encountered by digitally proficient operators who have available fully computerized control and communication systems. Two experiments will be conducted within this paradigm. One of them will focus on a concurrent duration estimation task, specifically the different forgetting functions for declarative and procedural information in this task. In the second experiment, a proposed memory constriction principle will be tested, according to which the time span from which knowledge can most easily be retrieved and used in a given context shrinks as stress level increases. The broader impacts of the proposed experiments are in the effective utilization of training skills for emergency response and reaction that persist over time. This is especially important for everyone involved in homeland security since training is likely to be sporadic.