Block 1 Flashcards

1
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What are the Human needs and Motivation?

A
Self Actualization
Esteem
Love/Belonging
Safety
Biological and Physiological
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2
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What are the Defense mechanisms

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Denial
Compensation
Projection
Fantasy
Displacement
Repression
Rationalization
Reaction Formation
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3
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Denial

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Ignore or refuse to acknowledge their poor performance

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4
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Compensation

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Disguise undesirable quality by emphasizing a more positive one

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5
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Projection

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Relegate the blame for their shortcomings to others

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6
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Fantasy

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Student engages in daydreaming about how things should rather than reality

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Displacement

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Unconscious shift of emotions, affect or desire from the original object to a more acceptable, less threatening substitute (aggression)

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Repression

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Place uncomfortable thoughts into an inaccessible area of mind

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9
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Rationalization

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The student cannot accept the real reason for their behavior

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10
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Reaction Formation

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Individuals develop behaviors/attitudes that are the opposite of what is desired. Fake a belief

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11
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What is anxiety?

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State of mental uneasiness arising from fear

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12
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what is the most significant psychological factor affecting flight instruction?

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Anxiety

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13
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What are the reactions to anxiety?

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Normal - Heart quickens

Abnormal - Extreme over cooperation, inappropriate laughter or singing

Seriously abnormal - Punch the airplane

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14
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What are the two learning theories?

A

Behaviorism

Cognitive

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15
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What is behaviorism?

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Explains human and animal behavior based on observable and measurable responses to stimuli

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16
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What is cognitive?

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The process of thinking and learning, what’s going on in the mind

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17
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What is the definition of learning?

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A change in behavior as a result of an experience

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18
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What are the Characteristics of learning?

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Result of an experience - Cant learn for the student

Active process - Student must be involved

Multifaceted - More than just memorization and developing skills

Purposeful - Each student sees and learns differently

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19
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What are the two learning styles

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Left brain - Responds well to verbal instructions and recalls names

Right brain - Responds well to demonstrated instructions and recalls peoples faces

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20
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What are the laws of learning?

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Ready to learn
Exercise
Effect
Primacy
Intensity
Recency
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21
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What are the laws of learning? Ready to learn

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Must understand why they should learn the task

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22
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What are the laws of learning? Exercise

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Things most often repeated are best remembered

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What are the laws of learning? Effect

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Learning is strengthened when it is accompanied by a positive feeling

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What are the laws of learning? Primacy

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Something you learn the first time is the strongest

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25
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What are the laws of learning? Intensity

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Students will have a stronger learning experience if is exciting, vivid, or dramatic

26
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What are the laws of learning? Recency

A

Things most recently learned are best remembered

27
Q

What is perception?

A

All learning comes from perceptions and 5 senses

28
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What are the factors that affect perception?

A
Physical organisms
Goals and values
Self concept
Time and opportunity
Element of threat
29
Q

What are the three insights

A

Visual - Seeing or reading
Auditory - Hearing or speaking
Kinesthetic - Touching and doing

30
Q

What is motivation?

A

Dominate force which governs the students progress and ability to learn

31
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What are the four levels of learning?

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Rote - memorization

Understanding - How or why

Application - Ability to apply what the student understands

Correlation - Ability to apply the learning to new and different situation

32
Q

What is a learning plateau

A

A point where the students rate of learning slows down and or stops

33
Q

Why is a learning plateaus a problem?

A

The students frustration will increase

34
Q

How can we fix a learning plateaus?

A

Fly with someone different?

35
Q

What is forgetting and retention?

A

Retrieval failure
Fading
Interference
Repression or suppression

36
Q

What are the two transfers of learning?

A

Positive Transfer - If learning “A” helps in learning “B”

Negative transfer - If learning “A” hinders learning “B”

37
Q

How can we achieve positive transfer of learning?

A

Correlate the procedure to something else

38
Q

What is habit formation?

A

Must maintain proper habits from the beginning and must have a good foundation

39
Q

What is the definition of effective communication?

A

Flow of information from one person to another

40
Q

What is included in the effective communication model?

A

Source
Symbol
Receiver

41
Q

What is included in the effective communication model? source

A

Do they understand? up to date information

42
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What is included in the effective communication model? Symbol

A

Words, signs, message

43
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What is included in the effective communication model? Receiver

A

Listener, reader, student. Must determine their abilities and adapt to their attitude

44
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What are the barriers to effective communications?

A

Lack of common experience

Confusion between symbol and the symbolized object

Overuse of abstractions

Interface

45
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What are the barriers to effective communications? Lack of common experience

A

“91.213” whats that to a private pilot

46
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What are the barriers to effective communications? Confusion between symbol and the symbolized object

A

“AMT” no one knows what that is

47
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What are the barriers to effective communications? Overuse of abstractions

A

“Aircraft” there are many kinds of aircraft, not enough details

48
Q

What are the barriers to effective communications? Interface

A

Loud in the aircraft, the environment

49
Q

How do you know your student has learned something?

A

They have changed something

50
Q

What is in the instructor toolbox

A
Never interrupt your student
Do not Judge
Think before answering
Be close enough to hear
Watch non verbal behavior
Aware of Biases 
Look for underlying feelings
Concentrate
Avoid Recursing answer while listening
Do not insist on the last word
51
Q

Whats the definition of a spin?

A

Result of an aggravated stall condition

Aggravated = yaw + stall

52
Q

Forward CG?

A

Nose Heavy
More tail down force needed
Decrease in performance

53
Q

Aft CG?

A

Tail heavy
Less tail down force needed/ less stable
Increases performance

54
Q

what increases performance?

A

Increase in pressure is increase in performance, pilot technique, aft CG

55
Q

What decreases performance?

A

Increase in temperature is a decrease in performance, Forward CG

56
Q

What is the definition of angle of attack?

A

Relative wind to the chord line

57
Q

What is rudder control?

A

Yaw about the vertical axis

58
Q

what’s a slip?

A

Horizontal component of lift being greater than the centrifugal force (Need more rudder

59
Q

Whats a skid?

A

where the rate of turn is too great for the angle of bank

60
Q

Whats dynamic stability?

A

Need positive static, and over time

61
Q

Whats static stability?

A

characteristic of an aircraft that causes it to try to return to straight and level flight after it has been disturbed from this condition.