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Human factors from the neck up - correct answer Engineering Psychology Focus on human work from the neck up - correct answer Cognitive Ergonomics/Engineering Focus is on the design and design evaluation of products, workstations, etc. - correct answer Human Factors Engineering Study of behavior is focused on the applications of theories and principles of behavior and cognition beyond the lab - correct answer Applied psychology Engineering psychology three implications in research - correct answer - Too much control may produce effects in the lab that are not seen in the workplace - Without considering practical significance and how this will translate into the design task (statistical significance does NOT dominate practical significnace) - Must consider its relevance to tasks outside of the lab Emphasis on the quality of performance measured typically by the big three - correct answer Speed (faster is better) Accuracy (higher is better) Attentional demand (less is generally better) Extensive human factors research stemmed from major accidents in the __________ in the 1970's - 1990's - correct answer airline industry Meta-Analyses - correct answer Provide a way of extracting and integrating quantitative data from a set of studies Human Information Processing Model - correct answer Provides framework for analyzing psychological processes used when interacting with systems or for carrying out task analyses Events in the environment are first processed by senses (sight, sound, touch, etc.) and held briefly in your _____________ - correct answer short term sensory store (STSS) (For about one second) Sensation / perception - correct answer Sensation does not equal perception Perception - correct answer Determining the meaning of the sensory signal or events Meaning found in perception is from past experiences stored in ... - correct answer Long term memory After perception our processing typically follows one or both paths - correct answer Immediate response or perception will use working memory to retain the state of the situation After response selection comes.. - correct answer Response execution In most cases overt actions ____ follow perception - correct answer Do not Cognition - correct answer The stage after sensation and before response selection can be called cognition This generically describes the interpretation process of sensed material Attention plays two roles - correct answer Filter Fuel (provides mental resources or energy to the different stages of the processing model) What natural processes are used to prove cognition? - correct answer - Hypothesis testing - Controlled observations The variable x and xc - correct answer If x is greater than xc you claim 'yes' the signal is there. If x is less than xc you claim 'no' the signal is not there. Liberal or risky decision making - correct answer Prone to saying yes and detecting most of the signals that occur, but also making many false alarms Conservative decision making - correct answer Saying no most of the time and making few false alarms, but missing many signals Beta - correct answer Ratio of neural activity produced by the