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- Title
Judgment of Traffic Scenes: The Role of Danger and Difficulty.
- Authors
Groeger, J. A.; Chapman, P. R.
- Abstract
The growth of expertise is frequently accompanied by an increased role being played by expectancy and anticipatory behavior. Such influences on behavior should be readily observable in the ways participants construe task-related scenarios, and distinguishable from more general experience gained from age. This paper reports an extensive study of how matched groups of motorists conceptualize the danger involved in various video-taped driving scenarios. Results demonstrate separable effects of both age and driving experience on the factor structure of drivers' rating of such stimuli. In particular, different emphases are placed on the danger and difficulty depicted in driving scenes. Younger drivers (irrespective of driving experience) concentrate on the danger rather than on the difficulty involved in carrying out particular maneuvers, but then under-rate the dangers encountered.
- Subjects
AUTOMOBILE driving; JUDGMENT (Psychology); AUTOMOBILE drivers; DANGER perception; SENSORY perception; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1996, Vol 10, Issue 4, p349
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199608)10:4<349::AID-ACP388>3.0.CO;2-4