Exam 9: Selection of Action

The additive factors technique makes the inference that when two manipulations of RT task difficulty (A and B) influence the same stage of processing, the more difficult level of A will:

[A,B,C & D] are stimuli laid out left to right, [1,2,3,4] are responses laid out left to right. Which mapping will have the longest average RT?

A failure of diagnosis or situation assessment in decision making would be most likely to result from which kind of error:

Describe the psychological refractory period and how predictions of single channel theory are tested in the typical psychological refractory period experiment by varying aspects of two RT tasks.

"If-then" logic is typical of:

What is the decision complexity advantage? (DCA). Identify one example of application of the DCA to interface design. Briefly (1 sentence) describe how your example adheres to the DCA.

In two sentences, describe the relationship in a simple RT task between the variables of warning interval delay (length) and warning interval variability

Several problems are identified in applying engineering reliability analysis to human reliability: among these are the findings that:

What is human reliability analysis? List and briefly describe three main challenges with its application to human-machine system error prediction.

Describe two factors related to preview in transcription tasks that contribute to the advantage of preview to human information processing.

According to the decision complexity advantage:

The shortest simple RT occurs when the warning interval is:

What are two major distinctions between slips and mistakes, as categories of human error?

As responses become more complex:

The easiest type of error to detect by the error-maker is typically the:

Effective design solutions to prevent human error are identified as:

Using a reminder is the best technique to avoid which kind of error:

Describe the Hick-Hyman law of RT. Graph it. Show how it accounts for the effect of expectancy on RT in information theory terms.

Applying human reliability analysis to humans and machines working together is made more difficult because of: