Cognitive Ergonomics

Question 1

Gestalt Laws

Answer 1

proximity
closure
similarity
continuity
symmetry

Question 2

cognition

Answer 2

mental action or process where we aquire knowledge and form perception through mental processes: senses experience memory reasoning

Question 3

wickens human information process

Answer 3

stimuli, sensory intake, perception, decision making, responce, attention, memory

Question 4

Object recognition theories (3)

Answer 4

Comparison with template
Special features
Prototype

Question 5

Reification

Answer 5

The experienced perception contains more information than the sensory stimulus that it is based on

Question 6

Invariance

Answer 6

Object are perceived as unchanged considering their size, shape and colour even though distance, lighting, perspective or conditions change - we can put things into a context

Question 7

Rasmussen’s SRK model

Answer 7

Describes decision making in three levels: skill, rule and knowledge. Each level has different input: signals, signs, symbols.