title: Factor analysis of perceptual and cognitive abilities tested by different methods.
abstract: A battery of visual, perceptual, and cognitive tests, believed to be important for operation of visual sonar displays, was administered to 100 sonar technicians. The measures varied from standard paper-and-pencil tests to computer-administered perceptual tasks. The results of 33 different measures on these men were compiled and subjected to a factor analysis. The factors extracted represent cohesive and reasonable groups which cut, to some extent, across testing techniques. However, all of the paper-and-pencil, perceptual-cognitive tests had high loadings on the same common factor, a result with general implications for occupational testing.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010466:Perceptual Closure; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013028:Space Perception; D014796:Visual Perception