Stress effects on transfer from virtual environment flight training to stressful flight environments

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCauley, Michael E.
dc.contributor.authorMcClernon, Christopher K.
dc.contributor.corporateModeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute (MOVES)
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Science (CS)
dc.dateJune 2009
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-22T15:32:21Z
dc.date.available2012-08-22T15:32:21Z
dc.date.issued2009-06
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this research was to investigate the effects that stress training has on stressful flight operations to mitigate the human factors preconditions to aircraft accidents. In addition, stress training implementation strategies were investigated in order to develop pedagogy pertinent to stress training. A series of three empirical experiments were performed to test the transfer of both human emotional states and task skills from a virtual environment to subsequent test scenarios. Results indicated that stress training improved performance, decreased physiological responses to stress, and decreased subjective appraisals of stress in a simulator criterion session. A second experiment tested the generalization of these results to a novel, real-world stressor. In this study, stress training in a flight simulator was found to enhance performance and moderate the adverse effects of stress when piloting an aircraft in a stressful flight environment. A third empirical study tested the transfer of flight simulator skills to a real-world flying task. Flight simulator training improved the performance of a training group when compared to a no-training, control group. This line of research demonstrates stress training as a viable approach for preparing trainees for stressful flight environments and stress in general.en_US
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dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/stresseffectsont1094510441
dc.format.extentxiv, 211 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/10441
dc.publisherMonterey, California: Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.subject.authorStressen_US
dc.subject.authortrainingen_US
dc.subject.authortransfer of trainingen_US
dc.subject.authorflight simulatoren_US
dc.subject.authorvirtual environmenten_US
dc.subject.authorhuman physiologyen_US
dc.subject.authorhuman performanceen_US
dc.subject.authorstrainen_US
dc.subject.authorstress copingen_US
dc.subject.authorstress exposure trainingen_US
dc.subject.lcshHuman physiologyen_US
dc.titleStress effects on transfer from virtual environment flight training to stressful flight environmentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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etd.thesisdegree.disciplineModeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute (MOVES)en_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelDoctoralen_US
etd.thesisdegree.namePh.D in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES)en_US
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