Chapter 11: Attention Management Flashcards
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Some believe the essence of situational awareness lies in…
The essence of situational awareness lies in the one’s ability to pay attention.
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How can hereditary instincts be both helpful and hurtful when it comes to being attentive?
Hurtful –
1. when enough fight or flight situation due to a high stress environment your eyes and ears become hyper vigilant for anything your brain interprets as threat. Instinctively attention is drawn to objects that are bright, loud, fast-moving, and in close proximity.
This means that you need to be conscious about missing dull, quiet, still, or far away clues and cues because you may be tuning them out.
- Distractions and interruptions on emergency scene
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Distraction
Distractions inadvertently draw your attention away from what you’re supposed to be watching or listening to.
E.g. Inadvertent airhorn that draws your attention.
Impact level I situational awareness
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Interruptions
Draw your attention away purposefully
E.g. someone approaching you to try to have a conversation or share information.
Impacts level one situational awareness
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Selective listening
This. Situational awareness manifest in several different ways.
Approaching person triggers hereditary instinct (lizard brain) to be on alert for danger pay special attention to them, at the detriment of other important cues/cues in radio traffic from crew at risk.
Command can go as far as to turn down the radio or cover the mic to hold the conversation
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why is it the responders who try to listen to multiple conversations simultaneously are very likely to miss cues and clues or not comprehend the meaning of the messages?
the act of listening requires conscious thought as your brain processes the audible message into visual images. This simply is a limitation of the brain, it’s able to process and comprehend only one conversation at a time.
It’s possible for you to bounce back and forth between multiple conversations and derive the general idea of the conversation. But something is sure to be missed as you listen to one conversation and are momentarily ignoring the other.
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What’s an analogy of trying to listen to two conversations at once?
Like trying to watch to television shows on on two television channels. You can flip back and forth as fast as you want, but you’re gonna miss something.
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Tunnel vision
Biological reaction triggered by hormones and chemicals causing your senses to narrowly focus on stimuli that are perceived as threatening. Under stress your attention can narrow down to one geographic area of the incident or one task being preformed. This can be caused by having an understaffed crew or task fixation. As well as other causes.
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Task fixation
Becoming fixated on the performance of the single task at the emergency scene can cause the responder to become oblivious to other events.
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The crash of Flight 41 landing in Miami, with the landing gear light indicator not lighting up, is an example of…
Task fixation
