Error Classification Practice Flashcards
Pulling on a “push” door that has a handle instead of a push plate
Mistake, design error
Crashing into your house because you failed to put your car into reverse while attempting to back out of your garage
Mode error, lapse, error of omission, slip
Being unable to open a combination (spin) lock because you forgot the numeric combination
Resource-limited processing, mediation error
Being unable to open a combination (spin) lock because you didn’t pause long enough on one of the numbers in the combination
Slip, timing error (an error of commission)
Grabbing and taking the wrong type of medication because the bottles for your blood pressure medication and pain medication look the same
Slip, input error
Writing “2016” for the year on a check when it’s January, 2017
Slip, mediation error
Disabling a tractor’s safety feature that was designed to prevent it from functioning without an operator in the seat, leading to injury
Violation
Misreading a weather map, and consequently deciding to let a plane take off in dangerous weather because you thought it was fine
Input error, mistake
deciding not to bring an umbrella with you to campus because you thought it wouldn’t rain (it did)
mistake
planning to get gas on your way home from work instead of before, and running out
mistake
deciding to go to the grocery store on the way home, and then realizing when you get home that you never made the turnoff for the store
Slip
Intending to bring an umbrella with you and forgetting
Lapse
not wearing safety gloves because they get in the way
Violation
typing in Overwrite mode instead of Insert mode
mode error
Adding the butter to cake batter after you have mixed the dry ingredients in
Sequence Error
