Abstract
New expectations in the field of psychotechnical tests and screening of transport operators has led to the improvement of theoretical foundations and increase in quality of the psychological judicature, which has proved to be challenging to the scientific units and health centers. The purpose of the abovementioned adjudicating is to determine the existence or the absence of the contraindications to drive a vehicle or to perform the duties of an instructor or an examiner. This is particularly difficult in case of the branch of unit based transport (that is road transport) where the results of the emergencies are usually incomparably lesser than in others means of transport (air, rail, sea). These tests have been presented only from the perspective of professional transport operators and their range is limited. The publication contains the description of a new methodology of testing transport operators with the use of a device that allows to determine the level of functional efficiency of the nervous system and the correlation of mental processes (such as the efficiency of cognitive, intellectual, and psychomotor functions and selected personality features, temperament) with the physiological parameters (pulse, GRS etc.) – that is Psychotronics. This device allows to diagnose the psychomotor efficiency of people employed in professions requiring special psychomotor vigilance and human activity where current psychological possibilities determine the life and safety of others.
Highlights
Psychological diagnostics carried out in the work psychology laboratories of transport operators consists of the methods used in clinical proceedings, namely: interview, observation and various standardized scales and personality, temperament or intelligence questionnaires whose results are often burdened with social approval [1]
The application of the new test method in practice allows for a realistic assessment of the current psychophysical condition of transport operators, eliminating the currently occurring factor related to the training
This training may be due to a limited number of available diagnostic methods and the need to carry out periodic diagnostics
Summary
Psychological diagnostics carried out in the work psychology laboratories of transport operators consists of the methods used in clinical proceedings, namely: interview, observation and various standardized scales and personality, temperament or intelligence questionnaires whose results are often burdened with social approval [1]. The integrated variable measurement system in the field of cognitive and psychomotor performance with simultaneous measurement of physiological parameters is a proposition for transport psychology, and for medicine, pharmacology and other areas in which the overall assessment of human functioning is taken into account. Research conducted in this area indicates the possibility of treating the general cognitive performance of the individual as the main predictor of the level of tasks and effectiveness of training that requires psychomotor skills such as rapid response to stimuli, proper sensorimotor coordination, as well as fast and accurate visual perception [2]. As part of scientific research, the level of psychomotor efficiency of the test group of road operators (vehicles drivers) determined by means of typical transport tests (Piórkowski-type machine) was compared with the results obtained with the help of the device to determine the level of functional efficiency of the nervous system and correlation of cognitive processes with physiological parameters
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