FOI Flashcards
What is human behavior?
Product of factors that cause people to act in a certain way.
The result of a persons attempt to satisfy certain needs.
Physiological
Need for food, water, air
Need these in order to concentrate
Security
Need to feel safe in order to concentrate
Belonging
Need for association and belonging
Self-esteem
Humans have a need for stable, high levels of self-respect and respect from others.
Cognitive
Need to understand what is going on around them.
When understanding what is going on around them, he or she can control the situation or make an informed choice of what to do next.
Aesthetic
Need to connect directly with human emotions.
When he or she likes another person, they will simply enjoy the training.
Self-actualization
Helping a student achieve his or her potential in aviation.
What is a defense mechanism?
Subconscious ego protecting reactions to unpleasant situations.
What are the 8 most common defense mechanisms?
DR DR FCPR
Denial Repression Displacement Rationalization Fantasy Compensation Projection Reaction formation
What is repression?
A person places uncomfortable thoughts into inaccessible areas of the unconscious mind.
Thoughts or information are to be dealt with at a later time.
What is denial?
Refusal to accept external reality because it is too threatening.
Refusal to acknowledge what is happening.
What is compensation?
Students disguise the presence of a weak or undesirable quality by emphasizing a more positive one.
What is projection?
Students blame their own shortcomings and mistakes to others or attribute their motives and characteristics to others.
What is rationalization?
Justifying actions that otherwise would be unacceptable.
The substitutions of excuses for reasons.
What is reaction formation?
Faking a belief opposite to the true belief because the true belief causes anxiety.
What is fantasy?
A student engages in daydreaming about how things should be rather than doing anything about how things are.
What is displacement?
An unconscious shift of emotion to a more acceptable, less-threatening substitute.
It avoids the risk of feeling unpleasant emotions by transferring them toward something unthreatening.
What are the 3 elements of communication?
Source - speaker, writer, instructor
Symbols - words or signs
Receiver - listener, reader, or student
What are 3 characteristics that instructors must understand about their students before effective communication can take place?
Abilities
Attitudes
Experiences
What are emotional ways students will react?
Anxiety or stress
Your student feels anxiety:
Freaked out about flying. Reinforce confidence in them that they can do these things. Give confidence and provide a clear path throughout flight instruction.
Your student is stressed:
When you get past 145BPM or over stressed, your vision gets narrow and start to tune things out.
Calm down your student, maybe take controls and let the, regroup.
What are some abnormal reactions to stress?
Singing or whistling
Nervous ticks
Laughing at weird times
What kind of barriers to communication exist?
COIL
Confusion between symbol and symbolized object
Overuse of abstractions
Interference
Lacking common experience
What’s an example of an overuse of abstractions?
Saying you’re high, you’re low, you’re fast is abstract.
You were at 100kts, should have been at 90.
You were 50 feet high.
Much more clear for the student.
Common experience between student and CFI
Using examples from other experiences make things easier to understand.
Talking about a boat getting on plane and comparing it to takeoff roll.
Nav lights on a boat compared to a plane.
An example of developing communication skills:
Question the student in the debrief - rote memory questions
Ex. Describe P-Factor
What color is the beacon at this airport?
Communication skills to student
If you’re going to teach something, know it well. Confidence is more effective in sending a message.
Be an expert on that days flight lesson.
When do you know learning has occurred?
Learning has occurred when there is a change in behavior.
What is behavior?
Basically what you see your student doing.
What are the two separate ways of learning?
Cognitive
Behaviorism
What is cognitive learning?
Is the learning through organized thoughts, mood of the student and process of how they think and learn.
What is behaviorism?
A result of what was done in the past.
Bad experience led them to doing something in a different way - changed behavior.
What is insight?
Insights are what you get from perceptions.
Perceptions grouped together form insights.
Brain organizes what you’re taking in, into a logical pattern.
What factors effect perception?
Time and opportunity can’t be rushed, element of threat/fear.
Student gets scared doing stalls - that’s their perception of it.
How can an instructor ensure the student is developing insights during flight training?
Make sure student develops a favorable self-concept of themselves.
Introduce them to students on the same level as them to make them feel like they belong.
Secure a non-threatening environment for them.
Use a lesson plan, the goal and tasks are clearly defined.
What are the laws of learning?
REEPIR
Ready Effective Exercise Privacy Intensity Recency
Ready
Ready to learn, not hungry or tired
Effect
Make connection and make it effective.
Exercise
Connections are strengthened with practice.
Privacy
What’s learned first is learned best.
Really hard to change what they learned first.
Teach the student the right way the first time.
Use proper procedures.