ABSTRACT

Learning is a phenomenon of people where human performance improves with experience. As tasks are repeated elements of the task are better remembered, cues are more clearly detected, skills are sharpened, transitions between successive tasks are smoothed, eye-hand coordination is more tightly coupled, and relationships between task elements are discovered. The aggregation of these and other personnel improvements will offer faster performance times, fewer errors, less effort, and there is often a better disposition that results. Several historical studies on individual person learning include Barnes and Amrine (1942), Knowles and Bell (1950), Glover (1966), Hancock and Foulke (1966), and Hancock (1967).