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1
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Term for thinking about thinking

A

Metacognition

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2
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System 1 is deliberate and effortful when it makes decisions

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False

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3
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When using skill based behavior physical cues are interpreted as

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Signals

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4
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Which law/principle states that response time will increase with more response options?

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Hick-Hyman Law

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Which of these principles for discrete controls does NOT have a display principle analogue?

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Provide Feedback

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6
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Which of the following controls is best suited for adjusting a continuous setting?

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Round knob

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7
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Which of these pointing devices is an indirect velocity control?

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Joystick

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8
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Which button and switch design features are most relevant to fitts law?

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Size

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9
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A control with high gain is

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more sensitive to control input

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10
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Which of these is NOT an advantage of a chorded keyboard?

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does not require extensive training

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11
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Which design principle is violated when information is buried in a deep nested menu?

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Minimize information cost

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12
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Display design principles can conflict with each other

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true

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13
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Which of these design principles make use of multiple resource theory?

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Avoid resource competition

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14
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Earcons are best suited for indicating actions that play out over time

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True

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15
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Which of these is the lowest level of alert that might only be purely visual

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Advisories

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What is the most ubiquitous and important guidelines to get right across icons and displays?

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making sure they are legible

17
Q

If you are trying to show the distribution of data what graph type should you use?

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Histogram

18
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Which of the following map design features matter less for planners than travelers?

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orientation of the map

19
Q

Shape and color are good for displaying interval and ordinal data

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False

20
Q

What type of data consists of categories that have a meaningful order?

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Ordinal

21
Q

You can’t have a good performance without situation awareness

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False

22
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Which of these is NOT a level of situation awareness?

A

Troubleshooting

23
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Which of these biases has to do with the order of which cues are received?

A

Anchoring

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