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CERAD EXAM 2/3 - Physiological and Psychological Factors Flashcards

1
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3 Most common causes of collisions?

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  • Driver Error or Reation Error
  • Actions based on poor judgement
  • Careless, Reckless or in a Hurry
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Frequecy of Driver Error or Reation Error

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3/4 Collisions

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3
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Frequency of Actions based on poor judgement

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1/6 Collisions

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Frequency of Careless, Reckless or in a Hurry

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1/6 Collisions

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Who is most likley to be involved in a collision?

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Young and Young Male drivers
Those who driver for work

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6
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Frequency of Young Driver collisons

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1/7 collisions and 1/6 fatal collisions despite holding 1/10 of licences

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Frequnecy those who driver for work are involved in collisions

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3/4 collisions involved someone who drivers for work

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4 Levels of the driving task

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  • Human Factors that effect our driving
  • Purpose and Context of the Journey
  • Taffic Situations
  • Vehicle and Vehicle control
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Human Factors that can put your driving at risk (6)

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  • Distraction due to multi-tasking and in vehicle technology
  • Driving Stress
  • Operational Stressors
  • Time pressures and the purpose of the journey
  • Noble-cause risk taking
  • Red Mist
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Physiological Factors effeting driving (6)

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Minor Illness
Medications
Residual Blood Alcohol
Low BG from hunger
Cyclical mood swings (men and women)
Life stress

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Negative Implications of stress

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  • Impatients
  • Introlerance
  • Impulsivness
  • Anger or Frustration
  • Personalisation
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Practical steps to combat stress (5)

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  • Adjust seat and steering well
  • Use taught techniques to remain systematic
  • Calm and Professional
  • Learn techniques to switch off from stress
  • Don’t dwell on previous mistakes
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Define “Red-Mist”

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Becoming emotional and pyschologically caught up in the incident you are travelling, diverting attention away from driving

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4 ways of dealing with red-mist

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  • Dont get into personal conflict
  • Be dispassionate and concentrate on driving
  • Don’t focus on what might be at the scene
  • Concentrate on Driving (talk hazards)
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Define Alertness and its effect on driving

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  • Determines the amount of info your brain can process, depends on many factors but decreases with routine tasks (driving)
  • Take active steps to remain alert
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16
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Tiredness Facts

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  • reactions slower in the morning
  • Dip in alertness after Midday Meal
  • The greates risk between 2300-0600
17
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Practical Steps to Combat tiredness (6)

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  • Adjust your seat for good posture
  • Take regular breaks (once every 2 hours)
  • Cumulative caffine has reducing effects
  • Plan breaks on long journeys
  • Exercise prevents fatigue
18
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I AM SAFE Checklist

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I - Ilness
A - Attitude
M - Medications
S - Sleep
A - Alcohol
F - Food
E - Emotion

19
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Driving Skills required by law (7)

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  • Multi-tasking
  • Spread attention to address hazards systematically
  • Situational Awareness
  • Plan Actively and Quickle
  • Anticipation
  • Sound Judgements
  • Alert to Hazards
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Factors Influencial to Poor Driving Standard (7)

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  • Medical Conditions
  • Stressful Situations
  • Operational pressures
  • Fatigue
  • Traffic Situations
  • Driving at Night
  • Driving in challenging weather
21
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Coping Stratergies (5)

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  • Emotion-focused coping
  • Confrontive Coping
  • Task-Focused Coping
  • Avoidance Coping
  • Reappraisal Coping
22
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Define Emotion-focused coping

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Self-critisism from the driver, may impair focus on driving through self-focus

23
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Define Cofrontive Coping

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Driving challenge through Self-assertation and conflict, a dangerous mechanism

24
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Define task focused coping

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Active attempts to change external enviroment by a driver response e.g. slowing down. A good technique

25
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Define Avoidance Coping

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Ignoring the stressor often through self-distraction and diverting attention from driving. This can impair performance

26
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Define Reappraisal Coping

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Dealing with Drover stress by re-appraising ones emotional and cognitive reactions. Good coping mechanism.

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Bad Coping Mechanisms

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  • Emotion Focused
  • Confrontive
  • Avoidance
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Good Coping Mechanisms

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  • Reappraisal
  • Task Focused
29
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What increases risk of tiredness? (5)

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  • Shift patterns
  • Sleep patters
  • Total time at work
  • Prolonged Monotomous Driving conditions
  • Driving for longer than 4 hours

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