A Load Of Shit Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is attention?
Focusing on information or stimuli
Types of attention?
Selective, divided, focussed, sustained
What is perception?
Transforming sensory data into meaningful information
What is memory?
A process that encodes, stores, retrieves
What are the stages of storage?
Sensory (few seconds), short term (5-9 items, 10-20 seconds), long term
What are the two types of long term memory?
Semantic (facts., knowledge), episodic (personal experiences), motor (driving a car)
What is situational awareness?
Awareness of the environment, allowing predictions based on perception, attention, and judgement.
What is claustrophobia?
Fear of enclosed spaces
What is acrophobia?
Fear of heights
How do external factors impact engineerings?
Regulatory requirements may impact their behaviours
What is maslows hierarchy of needs?
Basic needs before self-actualisation.
What is peer pressure?
Pressure to conform with expectations
What is conformity?
Tendency to align opinions, attitudes, actions, and perceptions with others
What were the results of arch’s conformity experiement?
Few participants answered incorrectly when alone, but about one third conformed to incorrect group answers.
Factors affecting conformity?
Gender, culture, self esteem, expertise, relationships
What is organisational culture?
Shared norms, values and practices
What Is human factors?
Fitting the person to the job, and the job to the person
In 1940 how many accidents were to due human error?
70%
In 1986 what percentage of accidents were due to maintenance and inspection deficiencies?
12%
List the human factor disciplines?
Clinical psychology, experimental psychology, anthropometric, computer science, cognitive science, safety engineering, medical science, organisational psychology, educational psychology, industrial engineering
What is Murphy’s law?
If something will go wrong sooner or later it will
