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Aviation Psychology Flashcards

1
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Working memory

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Sensitive to interruptions

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2
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Selective attention mechanism

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Limited capacity of central decision maker and working memory

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3
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Cognitive resources are limited

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Cannot perform two tasks at the same time

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4
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First stage in information processing

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Sensory stimulation

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5
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Divided attention

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Several interest dealt individually one after the other

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6
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Raising perceptual threshold of a sensory organ

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A lesser sensitivity

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7
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Vigilance

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Decrease in sensory perception

Sensation of muscular heaviness

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8
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Perception

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Intensity of the stimuli

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9
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Stimuli must be of a certain strength for receptors to pick them up

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Sensory threshold

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10
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Motor program

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Action slip and environmental capture

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11
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Semantic memory

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Words, and general knowledge. Last for a longer period. More accurate than episodic memory

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12
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Cocktail party effect

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Attention mechanism

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13
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Tolerant to error

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Consequence to error will not seriously jeopardize safety

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14
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Unnoticed waypoint error

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Latent failure

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15
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Situational awareness

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Pilots perception equals reality

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16
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Anderson model

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Cognitive
Associative
Automatic

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17
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Avoid conformation for decisions

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Search for info that will falsify the hypothesis

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18
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Avoid wrong decisions by pilots

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Report the malfunction

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19
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Effective communication

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Send information in line with the receivers decoding abilities

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20
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Very high ambition

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Disturbs the climate of co operation

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21
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Checklists

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Must not be done simultaneously with other actions

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22
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Communication by non words

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80%

23
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Hazardous though patterns

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Anti authority
Impulsiveness
Invulnerability
Resignation
Machoism
24
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Not a hazardous attitude

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Domination

25
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Stress

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Noise
Temperature
Hunger

26
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Arousal and flying performance

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Inverted U

27
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Resistance to stress

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Fats into sugars, more energy

28
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General adaption syndrome

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Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

29
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Priority aim of man to machine

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Reduce risk of the appearance or non detection of errors entailing serious consequence

30
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Barotrauma more likely

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Respiratory infection and during descent

31
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Ozone

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Is a toxic gas

32
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Priority aim of man to machine

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Reduce risk of the appearance or non detection of errors entailing serious consequence

33
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Barotrauma more likely

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Respiratory infection and during descent

34
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Ozone

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Is a toxic gas

35
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General Adaption Syndrome

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ANS (Autonomic Nervous System)

Responding to imaginary threat

36
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Stress Reaction

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Non-specific response of the body to every demand placed on a person

37
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Cognitive coping

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Ignoring or rationalising the stress factor

38
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Psychosomatic

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Mental and emotional stressors can be manifested in organic stress reactions

39
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Acute Fatigue

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Does not have psychological roots

40
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Complex Tasks

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Narrow the span of attention

41
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In case of in flight stress

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Use all available resources of the crew

42
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Mode Error

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Automation

43
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Result of automation in cockpits

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Communication and coordination call for an even greater effort on the part of the crew members

44
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Modern technology

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Facilitate feedback from the machine via more concise data for communication on the flight deck

45
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Hypoxia affects night vision

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5000 ft

46
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Ballon

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Boyles Law

47
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Decompression Sickness

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7000 to 30000 ft

48
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Indifferent zone

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From 16000

49
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Checklists

A

Subdivided
Panel scan
Upper case, bold, italics, colour

50
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Reflex Centre

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Cerebellum

51
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Vibrations to nerve impulses

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Cochlea

52
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Procedures

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Procedural Consitensy

53
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Hypertension

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Increases the likelihood of stroke and heartattack

HPL (2 decks)

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