Mental Readiness

Question 1

Mental readiness

Answer 1

Individuals or team ability to think feel and act optimizes in demanding environments

Question 2

Mental readiness abilities

Answer 2

Integrate cognitive
Emotional
Interpersonal capabilities

Question 3

Mental readiness includes 3 interrelated capabilities

Answer 3

Cognitive
Emotional
Interpersonal

Question 4

SMART

Answer 4

Specific
Measuremable
Attainable
Relevant
Time period

Question 5

Cognitive capabilities

Answer 5

Ability to expand and integrate knowledge into decisions with knowing soldiers thoughts and performance

Memory
Problem solving
Decision making

Question 6

Cognitive load

Answer 6

Amount of information a soldier can memorize short term in order to learn something new

Question 7

What are the 3 types of cognitive load

Answer 7

Intrinsic
Extraneous
Germane

Question 8

Intrinsic load

Answer 8

Amount of info a soldier needs to understand something

Question 9

Extraneous load

Answer 9

Info present and cognitive demands placed on soldier during task performance

Question 10

Germane cognitive load

Answer 10

refers to soldiers comprehension coordination of information

Question 11

Attention

Answer 11

Ability to sort through irrelevant information distractions to concentrate on task at hand

Question 12

Emotional capability

Answer 12

Is influenced by abilities such as arousal control, heart rate control, stress control, performance imagery

Question 13

Activation levels low

Answer 13

Being asleep

Question 14

Activation levels high

Answer 14

Awake active and intensely excited

Question 15

What measures activation levels

Answer 15

Involuntary or automatic physiological response in the body

Question 16

Examples of involuntary or automatic physiological responses in the body

Answer 16

Heart rate
Blood pressure
Hormone levels

Question 17

Examples of acute early phase stress response

Answer 17

Increased heart rate
Increased blood pressure
Increased spiration

Duration in minutes to hours

Question 18

Examples of chronic later phase of stress response

Answer 18

Suppression of immune system
Suppression of appetite and digestion
Suppression of growth factors

Duration in days to weeks

Question 19

How can you improve activation control

Answer 19

Inhaling for 5-7 secs and exhaling 5-7 secs to slow heart stats

Question 20

Low stress bpm

Answer 20

115-145 bpm

Question 21

Moderate stress bpm

Answer 21

145-174 bpm

Question 22

High stress bpm

Answer 22

175+

Question 23

What is stress

Answer 23

The body and brains response to stress to a threat

Question 24

Yerkes-Dodson law

Answer 24

Explains relationship between stress and performance

Question 25

Performance imagery

Answer 25

Mental rehearsal or recreation of an occupational task to improve that task

Question 26

Sensory inputs

Answer 26

Sight Smell Sound Texture Propriocetion

Question 27

Examples of positive emotion

Answer 27

Enthusiastic Active Alert Optimism Hope Flexibility

Question 28

Types of self talk

Answer 28

Instructional Motivational Cognitive reframing

Question 29

Interpersonal capabilities

Answer 29

Ability to facilitate team cohesion and the development and sustainment of healthy relationships

Question 30

Primary components of communication

Answer 30

Nonverbal and verbal cues

Question 31

Cohesion can be

Answer 31

Socially based Task based

Question 32

Task cohesion

Answer 32

The amount of work soldiers perform together to accomplish common goals

Question 33

Social cohesion

Answer 33

Term used to describe the affinity soldiers have for one another in the form of mutual respect