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... 1Background THE COMMITTEE'S FIRST PHASE Six years ago the Army Research Institute (ARI) asked the National Research Council (NRC)
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... What research is needed to advance understanding of performance enhancement in areas related to those techniques? In its report, Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques (Druckman and Swets, 1988)
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... consideration of training issues is driven by practical needs: as the largest training institution in the world, the Army faces increasing demands for technical skills needed to perform sophisticated combat and noncombat missions. Related to these demands are issues of long-term career development: career planning must now take into account the cultivation and perpetuation of skills needed to perform complex tasks.
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... cognitive (modeling) , or motor (performance)
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... Training Optimizing Long-Term Retention Skills and knowledge gained in instructional programs are often exercised much later, even as long as a year or more following training. Thus, the committee examined training procedures that may be optimal for long-term posttraining effectiveness.
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... performance in organizations and is a basis for a framework or model of careers that can be used to guide planning for an officer's progression through the ranks. A class of techniques designed to improve performance through increased selfinsight is widely used in public and private organizations, including the Army.
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... occur through the use of such methods as meditation and related relaxation therapies as well as through nonpharmacological ways of coping with physical pain. Of particular relevance to the military is the use of psychological methods to help people endure extremely stressful situations.
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... findings with subjects -- both amateurs and experts -- who try to detect deception. A Broad Concept of Deception A key question is whether the laboratory results on nonverbal indicators of deception can be generalized to other real-world situations and to populations other than those who are usually the subjects of laboratory experiments.
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... in developing individual skills and group practice? What modifications are needed for studies of undifferentiated groups to be applied to training of stratified and multifunctional groups?

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