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Measuring Human Capabilities An Agenda for Basic Research on the Assessment of Individual and Group Performance Potential for Military Accession (2015) / Chapter Skim
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... A critical component of the selection process for enlisted service members is the formal assessments administered to applicants to determine their performance potential. All applicants passing basic educational attainment and moral character screens take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
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... In light of these considerations, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences approached the National Research Council to develop an agenda for basic research to maximize the efficiency, accuracy, and effective use of human capability measurement in the military's selection and initial occupational assignment process.
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... HYBRID TOPICS WITH JOINT FOCUS ON NEW PREDICTOR CONSTRUCTS AND PREDICTION OF NEW OUTCOMES Hot cognition: defensive reactivity, emotional regulation, and performance under stress. Hot cognition refers to how individuals perform in situations that elicit strong emotions (in contrast to cognition under circumstances of cool, level, or moderate emotions, or "cold cognition")
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Key Terms

  • job performance
  • performance potential
  • predictor constructs
  • measuring human
  • armed services

  • executive attention
  • army research
  • judgment tests
  • cognitive biases
  • qualifying test

  • biases refer
  • ity assessment
  • spatial relationship
  • action appropriately
  • ability battery

  • human capabilities
  • occupational assignment
  • personality domains
  • elaborate equipment
  • strong emotions

  • adaptive personality
  • individuals perform
  • defensive reactivity
  • hot cognition
  • capability measurement

  • forces qualifying
  • memory capacity
  • evidence supporting
  • theoretical foundation
  • vocational aptitude


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