Expertise Flashcards
Power function in practice refers to
Fast initial learning then slow then fast etc…not just a linear line
As you get better and better at a skill your performance will start to
Decelerate
Experts know more
About their fields
Experts organise their knowledge…
Differently that others
Experts spent more time
Understanding the problem before immediately trying to solve it
Experts use their knowledge to facilitate their memory of
Meaning
Naturalistic decision making refers to
How skilled operators make decisions in real life
Expert naturalistic decision making recognise a
Pattern of cues
Recognising a pattern of cues allows experts to in the future
Respond quickly to similar situations
Experts in naturalistic setting have an inherent
Knowledge of key cues
Experts use cues such as
Info acquisition
Chunking
Automaticity
Strong cue based knowledge means faster
Progression to expert
What are cues
Represent features of the environment that hold meaning for the receiver
Cue features can come from which senses?
Any
To be a cue to you it has to have
Meaning for you
A cue is a
Feature + event association which produces a response which guides your behaviour
Amount of practice is not the only thing you need to become and expert. Also need…
Experience
Gut feeling guided by
Cues become automatic
If a cue occurs all the time it’s
Deterministic …ie green traffic light predicts event
Probabilistic cues are
High likelihood that event will happen if cue present. Ie dark clouds = rain
Cues are difficult to learn through
Observation only!
Amount of cues experts use to perform a task
1-9
Four aspects that cues help with task performance
Task accuracy
Task efficiency
Task anxiety management
Task search termination
There are two areas of advantage to using cues
Cognitive
Affective (emotional)
Expert skills are retained in what part of memory
Implicit
Procedural
