Effect of Distractors, Age, and Level of Education upon Psychomotor Task Learning

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• Personal Author:
  Jaraiedi M ; Schwerha, Diana J. ; Wiker, S. F.
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Education Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Age Factors Assembly Author Keywords: Aging Worker Distraction Learning Task Performance
• ISSN:
  0169-8141
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070386
• Citation:
  Int J Ind Ergon 2007 Sep-Oct; 37(9-10):801-809
• Contact Point Address:
  Diana J. Schwerha, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University
• Email:
  schwerha@ohio.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  West Virginia University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
• End Date:
  20100630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:119a03a885ca4518e71ae354902e501c5cbc599c1a58c5416e35d2b5717daff66c52b0b35b18a96f20db8b78b8a55857e2f8a4b47b1cb71b8c1812b0be67e5ed
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208616/cdc_208616_DS1.pdf
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