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Attention

Selective - Being able to differentiate between different sources of information and attend selectively to them, for example distinguishing and attending to various alarms.

Divided - The ability to switch attention between sources of information, and perform different tasks in parallel.



Skills Assessed:

• Selective attention
• Divided attention
• Information processing

Behavioural

No established occupational psychological deficiencies, particularly in operational aptitudes or any relevant personality factor.

Skills Assessed:

• Emotional stability
  
• Stress management
  
• Professional conduct

Communication

The ability to read, listen, understand and respond appropriately, and effectively convey information orally and in writing.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading comprehension
• Verbal communication
• Written expression

Hand Coordination

The ability to make appropriate and controlled movements in response to decisions about complex stimuli.

Skills Assessed:

• Motor control
• Reaction accuracy
• Physical coordination

Memory

The ability to learn, recall and apply job related information in appropriate time limits, for example learn new information in training or applying specific rules and procedures.

Skills Assessed:

• Information retention
• Procedural recall
• Applied learning

Perception

The ability to anticipate elements in a traffic environment and make a correct decision about how to respond given the speed and distances involved, for example identifying a landmark cue before a station and starting to decelerate.

Skills Assessed:

• Visual processing
• Situational awareness
• Anticipation

Reaction Time

A quick and adequate response to simple and complex visual and acoustic stimuli and the associated quality of performance.

Skills Assessed:

• Quick responses
• Stimulus recognition
• Performance quality

Reasoning

The ability to solve problems and make decisions, for example fault diagnosis; understanding and interpreting information from instrumentation.

Skills Assessed:

• Problem solving
• Logical thinking
• Decision making

Vigilance

The ability to attend and respond to stimuli which occur relatively infrequently and over extended periods of time.

Skills Assessed:

• Sustained attention
• Long-term focus
• Rare event detection