| Abstract: | Phillip L. Ackerman is cited for outstanding research on individual differences in complex skill acquisition. His experiments with air traffic control and related learning and transfer tasks represent a unique marriage of cognitive theory, psychometrics, and sophisticated data analysis to substantially improve our understanding of real-world complex performance. He has provided an explicit information-processing theory on the phases of skill acquisition in relation to general and special abilities. In addition to the citation, and biography is presented for Ackerman, along with a selected bibliography of his works. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
