Strength and Resistance to Interference in Practiced Recognition: Memory-Retrieval Abilities Investigated through Latent Structure Modeling
Scott R. Chaiken · 2000
In support of improving general research practices and USAF selection procedures, AFRL/HEAI has documented AFOSR- sponsored research leading to the acceptance for publication of "Memory-retrieval abilities investigated through latent structure modeling" in the American Journal of Psychology (expected 2001, vol. 114). While the paper examines issues in cognitive and differential psychology (a necessity for publishing in this kind of journal), the AF relevant part of the article is methodological. The paper shows how a criterion can be decomposed, by careful design of part tasks, into a set of hypothetical abilities important for the criterion. Latent structure modeling is then applied to assess both the reality and the importance of the underlying abilities to the criterion. This methodology provides a structured, potentially job-tailored, approach to selection test construction and validation. This work is legacy work from closing work units. There is no active selection research at AFRL.