This paper discusses the development of a battery of 'CADS' tests of skill, personality, and intellectual functioning. The first objective was to assess the relationship of the battery's components with tests of hazard perception and drivers' accident records and judgements of traffic scenes. The second objective was to assess and make operational a theoretical model of the processes of responding to risk, suggesting that they involve hazard perception, threat appraisal, action selection, and implementation of the necessary actions. There is a discussion of these four processes individually, and then their mutual interactions and influence. The results of a preliminary study, with 95 participants, are presented. Estimates are given of the correlations between: (1) personality variables; (2) cognitive ability variables, accident rate, and hazard perception; and (3) hazard perception and self-reported accident and driving statistics.
Samenvatting