Part 2 (Barriers to Commander Situational Awareness) Chapter 15: Mental Models Flashcards
These are you mind’s point of reference of what is happening now and what’s going to happen in the future
mental models
This is sometimes referred in neuroscience as unconscious decision making
Intuition
Your ____ can be wrong or skewed or even absent if you have never had a certain experience before resulting in the absence of a gut feeling or a skewed gut feeling.
intuition
Each of your eyes has a ___ ___. Physiologically speaking, there’s a small area in the back of the eye where there are no photon (light) receptor nerve cells. Your brain fills in the __ ____ based on your memory of passed experiences coupled with calculations it makes about your current surroundings
blind spot
To develop and maintain strong SA requires 3 things
- You must be conscious
- you must be present
- you must scan your environment
Scanning the environment serves two important purposes. 1) It helps responders avoid fixation on any one thing. 2)
It helps fill in the blind spots with accurate information
_____ are the evidence a rational brain can use to validate the veracity of intuition
facts
To blindly trust intuition with no form of validation of facts can be foolish, if not deadly. President ____ said “trust, but verify”. This is a good rule to apply when managing your intuitive gut feelings under stress
Reagan
Command Aide can be a tremendous asset to an IC. Aides provide a second set of eyes and ears to capture and process the clues and cues. Their findings can be played as ______ or compared to the commanders. Discrepancies should warrant further evaluation
devils advocate
The _______ mental model, based on radio transmissions, must be compared with the actual clues and cues after arrival. Failure to do so will result in failed Level 1 SA
pre-arrival
If the responder vividly imagines something to be ______, the brain may process the fantasy as reality
factual,
