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What is individual situation awareness? |
Based on an independent operators perspective. |
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Define situational awareness. |
The perception of the elements in the environment within the volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future. |
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What does situational awareness include? |
Seeing. Procedures. Individual situational awareness. Includes total system. |
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What increases situational awareness? |
Stress. Communication. |
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What decreases situational awareness? |
Stress. Fatigue. |
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Situational awareness is binned into what two areas? |
Individual. Distributed. |
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What is distributed situational awareness? |
Based on a system perspective. |
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What are some of the tools needed to assess situational awareness? |
Physiological (tracking). Performance measures (response time, accuracy etc.). Task measures. Questionnaires. |
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What are categories of assessment techniques? |
Situational awareness requirement analysis. Freeze probe. Real time probe. Self-Rating. Observer Rating. Distributed situational awareness. |
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What is a freeze probe? |
Able to stop the system to ask questions. i.e. simulator. |
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What is a real time probe technique? |
Not stopping the system. Quick query to see what you know. Helps show how quickly information can be obtained. |
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From crew resource management, define decision. |
The ability to choose a course of action using logical and sound judgment based on the available information. |
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From crew resource management, define assertiveness. |
The willingness to actively participate, state, and maintain a position until convinced by the facts that other options are better. |
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From crew resource management, define mission analysis. |
The ability to develop short term, long-term, and contingency plans and coordinate, allocate, and monitor crew and aircraft resources. |
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From crew resource management, define communication. |
The ability to clearly and accurately send and receive information, instructions, or commands and provide useful feedback. |
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From crew resource management, define leadership. |
The ability to direct and coordinate the activities of crew members and to encourage the crew to work together as a team. |
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From crew resource management, define adaptability/flexibility. |
The ability to alter a course of action based on new information, maintain constructive behavior under pressure, and adapt to internal and external environmental changes. |
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From crew resource management, define situational awareness. |
The degree of accuracy by which one’s perception of the current environment mirrors reality. |
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What are the three levels of situational awareness? |
Understand the things that let you understand now. Understand the now. Understand the future. |
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Where are examples of multitasking? |
Time sharing. Divide attention. |
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What is single pool theory? |
A general pool of undifferentiated mental effort. |
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What are the four dimensions of Wickens multiple resource theory model? |
Stages. Processing codes. Input channels. Visual channels. |
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What are the perceptual modalities for the multiple resource theory? |
Visual. Audio. Tactile. Olfactory. |
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What are the two visual channels used in visual processing proposed by the multiple resource theory? |
Focal. Ambient. |
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What is sensory overload? |
The inability to process large quantities of information or perform multiple tasks at the same time. |
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What is Garnett’s rule when it comes to sensory overload? |
Humans cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. No such thing as multi-tasking. |
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How much does cell phone use increase the probability of having an accident in a car? |
4 to 5 times |
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True or false: if you are in a hurry, multitasking is faster than doing one task at a time |
False |
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What are the human factors guidelines for time sharing? |
Redesign the task to minimize workload. Interface redesign. Automation. Training. |
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What is automaticity? |
The ability to do things without occupying the mind with low level details required allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. |
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What does automaticity do? |
Decreases the amount of cognitive load. |
