An Exploration into the Contributing Cognitive Skills of Lifeguard Visual Search

Autor/inn/en	Laxton, Victoria; Mackenzie, Andrew K.; Crundall, David
Titel	An Exploration into the Contributing Cognitive Skills of Lifeguard Visual Search
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36 (2022) 1, S.216-227 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Laxton, Victoria) ORCID (Mackenzie, Andrew K.) ORCID (Crundall, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3913
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Safety; Identification; Victims; Reaction Time; Aquatic Sports + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Sicherheit; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Victim; Opfer; Reaktionsvermögen; Water sports; Water sport; Wassersport
Abstract	Lifeguard drowning detection in swimming pools and beach settings is influenced by experience. The current experiment explores the cognitive skills that might underlie this experience effect. Lifeguard and non-lifeguard performance in a domain-free multiple object avoidance (MOA) task and a partially domain-free functional field of view (FFOV) task was compared to performance on an occlusion-based drowning detection task. Lifeguards performed better than non-lifeguards on the MOA task and the FFOV central task (identifying whether an isolated swimmer was drowning). However, only performance in the central FFOV task was associated with performance in the occlusion-based drowning detection task, and this was the only part of the two tasks that was not domain-free. These results suggest lifeguard drowning detection is mainly driven through the learned ability to process behaviours of drowning swimmers quicker than non-lifeguards. Therefore, it may be possible to train novices' ability to detect drowning swimmers through an exposure task. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11