Expertise

Question 1

Power function in practice refers to

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Fast initial learning then slow then fast etc…not just a linear line

Question 2

As you get better and better at a skill your performance will start to

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Decelerate

Question 3

Experts know more

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About their fields

Question 4

Experts organise their knowledge…

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Differently that others

Question 5

Experts spent more time

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Understanding the problem before immediately trying to solve it

Question 6

Experts use their knowledge to facilitate their memory of

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Meaning

Question 7

Naturalistic decision making refers to

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How skilled operators make decisions in real life

Question 8

Expert naturalistic decision making recognise a

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Pattern of cues

Question 9

Recognising a pattern of cues allows experts to in the future

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Respond quickly to similar situations

Question 10

Experts in naturalistic setting have an inherent

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Knowledge of key cues

Question 11

Experts use cues such as

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Info acquisition
Chunking
Automaticity

Question 12

Strong cue based knowledge means faster

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Progression to expert

Question 13

What are cues

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Represent features of the environment that hold meaning for the receiver

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Cue features can come from which senses?

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Any

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To be a cue to you it has to have

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Meaning for you

Question 16

A cue is a

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Feature + event association which produces a response which guides your behaviour

Question 17

Amount of practice is not the only thing you need to become and expert. Also need…

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Experience

Question 18

Gut feeling guided by

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Cues become automatic

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If a cue occurs all the time it’s

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Deterministic …ie green traffic light predicts event

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Probabilistic cues are

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High likelihood that event will happen if cue present. Ie dark clouds = rain

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Cues are difficult to learn through

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Observation only!

Question 22

Amount of cues experts use to perform a task

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1-9

Question 23

Four aspects that cues help with task performance

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Task accuracy
Task efficiency
Task anxiety management
Task search termination

Question 24

There are two areas of advantage to using cues

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Cognitive

Affective (emotional)

Question 25

Expert skills are retained in what part of memory

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Implicit

Procedural