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True or False: Non-technical skills are important in aviation because they contribute to effective communication and teamwork among crew members

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T

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True or False: Non-technical skills are irrelevant in aviation as long as pilots possess strong technical knowledge and expertise

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F

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True or False: Non-technical skills play a crucial role in aviation safety by helping pilots effectively manage stress, make good decisions, and mitigate risks

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T

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True or False: Non-technical skills are only relevant for cabin crew members and do not significantly impact the performance of pilots

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F

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True or False: Non-technical skills, such as situational awareness and decision-making. abilities, are more critical in aviation than technical skills alone.

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T

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Non-technical skills encompass attributes such as the ability to recognize and manage human performance limitations, make sound decisions, communicate effectively, lead and work as a team and maintain situation awareness

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T

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True or False: CRM training solely focused on individual management styles and interpersonal skills

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F

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True or False: CRM has evolved over the years but has failed to expand beyond the aircraft to include air traffic controllers and maintainers

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F

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True or False: It can be difficult to demonstrate the effectiveness of CRM and NTS training because safety performance is difficult to measure

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T

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True or False: Non-technical skills (NTS) training in aviation does not include teaching specific technical skills

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T

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True or False: Military flight operations have less of an issue with NTS related accidents

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F

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True or False: Within the C-SHELL model, the E stands for “Environment”

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T

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True or False: Within the C-SHELL model, the S stands for “Security”

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F

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Fill in the Blank: NTS, which stands for Non-_____ skills, include topics such as communication, situational awareness, and teamwork

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Technical

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CRM is defined as the optimal use of

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all available resources

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Cognition refers to the processes such as attention, memory, decision-making, reasoning and respondin

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T

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Motivation is the mental faculty of purpose, desire, or will to perform

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T

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For most people, work does not involve attending to stimuli in our environment, making decisions, executing responses and monitoring the effectiveness of those responses

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F

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Working memory can store an unlimited amount of memory

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F

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it is easy for people to pay attention to multiple things

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F

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Distractions are the major hazard to maintaining attention

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T

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Knowing where to direct your attention is something that comes with experience and training.

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T

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_______ motivation is when you do the job because it is interesting and you like doing it

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intrinsic

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The atmosphere consists of approximately 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen

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T

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Caffeine results in increased nerve activity in the brain
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Degradation of physiological and psychological responses are often seen when circadian rhythms are disrupted during transmeridian flight
T
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Nutrient-rich carbohydrates result in a steady rise in glucose levels in the blood
T
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Stress and illness cannot decrease the glucose levels in your blood
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Omega-3 fatty acids can improve brain function
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Emotion ________ represents the feelings and emotions that guide and accompany our thoughts and actions
intelligence
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Decision-making is considered a non-technical skill that involves analyzing and selecting the best course of action based on available information
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Non-technical skills are primarily focused on individual performance and do not significantly impact teamwork and collaboration in aviation
F
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Slips occur when an intention is executed in an inappropriate manner, while lapses are the failure to perform a required action
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External causes such as interruptions, distractions, and unpredictable events can contribute to skill-level errors.
T
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Mistakes are considered more dangerous than slips or lapses because the person making the mistake believes they are doing the right thing
F
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After many years of snapshot research done by defense aviation, the #1 ranked error is having too many things to do
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Regarding common types of violations the #1 ranked violation according to Snapshot is doing a task without the right tools
F
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The Defense Aviation Safety analysis model provides a broader view of the work situation, one that captures the work system as a whole, including the organization, the individual, technical issues, etc.
T
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Latent failures in the Swiss Cheese Model are often left dormant and are not easily recognized
T
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Active Failures in the Swiss Cheese Model are often made by people not directly involved in the workplace
F
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Some ways to change the work environment could be physical such as implementing better lighting, temperature, reducingnoise, etc
T
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Decision errors are actions carried out as planned but not appropriate for the situation
T
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Action errors occur when the action deviates from the person’s plan
T
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The four layers of the Swiss Cheese Model include: Organizational factors, unsafe supervision, unsafe act preconditions, and _______?
unsafe acts
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_____ failures are unsafe behavior by people who are in direct contact with the system.
Active
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The Acronym HRO Stands for High-Reliability Organizations
T
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The US Navy Nuclear Fleet is an example of an HRO and has 5400 Reactor years and no major incidents
T
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The odds of getting in a plane accident are 1.6/1,000,000
T
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The book defines safety culture as “dynamic interplay of workplace factors at multiple levels in an organization that influence safety performance”.
T
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Division is a driver of safety culture
F
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Communication is a driver of safety culture
T
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Safety culture is made up of underlying values
T
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Secretive or pathological culture is the most developed safety culture model
F
54
Just culture punishes members for their actions
F
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Adaptive culture recognizes the unpredictability of real life and adapts
T
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Practical drift is the slow change of procedures that can go unnoticed
T
57
Nature of the job and the “can do” attitude are reasons why rules are broken.
T
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Organizational resilience is the ability to deal with undesired or unexpected events.
T
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Company ________ is “How we do things around here”.
culture
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Safety climate is how an _______ views the organization’s policies and procedures.
individual
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Decision-making should not be understood from a systems perspective, and should rather be considered in isolation as the action of an individual operator
F
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Other non-technical skills such as communication, stress management, and situational awareness are intricately linked to effective decision-making
T
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The RPD (Recognition Primed Decision) model involves generating several possible courses of action, simulating and comparing each outcome, and ultimately selecting the optimal decision
F
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Naturalistic decision-making (NDM) examines how operators use experience to make decisions under conditions characterized by time pressures, shifting conditions, unclear, goals, degraded information quality, risk-laden consequence, and perhaps conflicted team interactions
T
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Decision-making, like situation assessment, situation awareness, and risk management require continuous attention and evaluation
T
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One of the advantages of creative decision-making is that it quickly generates a course of action, is tried and tested, and is not affected by stressful conditions
F
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It is important to recognize and counter the human tendency, when examining decision-making in complex safety incidents, to blame individual decision-makers, particularly the person in the loop nearest the adverse outcome
T
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Effective decision making is strongly influenced by technical expertise, experience, familiarity with the situation, and practice in responding to challenging situation
T
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Stress tends to lead to focused attention (tunnel vision)
T
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We are often unaware of how cognitive biases affect our thinking and judgement
T
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Mnemonics are best used in a stressful or time sensitive situation
F
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Adverse outcomes are caused by poor decisions of an individual or team
F
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You can moderate cognitive biases by jumping to conclusions
F
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The ____ decision-making model refers to decisions based on following a series of steps that are either committed to memory, or lookup up in a set of instructions or a manual
Rule-based
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SHOR stands for _______, hypothesis, options, and response
stimuli
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Situational awareness began being used in WWI and was later mainstream in WWII.
T
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_______ is higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning
metacognition
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Context is irrelevant for good situational awareness
F
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A study of team performance found that the best teams communicated the most.
F
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Quality of team situational awareness is associated with trust, cohesion, interpersonal connections, and a positive group climate.
T
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The main challenge of shared situation awareness is ________
coordination of crew resources
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Operations characterized by constant change in a continuous sequence of dynamic information are easiest to store in memory.
F
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Stress decreases cognition, memory, and attention ability.
T
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Aspects of human cognition are incorporated into the design of aircraft systems
T
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Training can be tailored to the goal of developing situational awareness.
T
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You should not request more time from ATC to regain situational awareness.
F
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Technology aimed to enhance situational awareness always improves situational awareness among pilots.
F
88
It is important to minimize distractions to manage situational awareness.
T
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Communication is not a vital part of maintaining situation awareness.
F
90
Situation awareness requires constant effort and vigilance
T

AT 416 FAR 117 (3 decks)

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