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Situational Blindness
The lack of perception or understanding of important information in one's environment, leading to critical mistakes or accidents.
Situational Awareness and Workload
High workload can negatively affect situational awareness by overloading cognitive capabilities, leading to errors.
Situational Awareness in Emergency Response
Vital for first responders to assess situations quickly, prioritize actions, and make life-saving decisions under pressure.
Projection
The ability to forecast future actions from the understanding of current events and their consequences, representing the highest level of situational awareness.
Information Processing in Situational Awareness
The efficient processing and interpretation of sensory input to inform decisions; can be impaired under stress or due to inadequate training.
Mental Models
Internal representations of reality that people use to understand and interact with their environment, crucial for developing situational awareness.
Cockpit Management
The practice of managing all resources inside and outside of the cockpit to ensure effective situational awareness and safe flight.
Perception
Recognition of elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, a precondition for situational awareness.
Situational Awareness in Aviation
A critical component for pilots to operate safely, involving the continuous tracking of the aircraft's position, the condition of its systems, and external factors like weather and traffic.
The Role of Memory in Situational Awareness
Recall of past experiences and knowledge facilitates comprehension and projection in situational awareness.
Situational Awareness and Human Error
A key factor in reducing human error in high-stakes environments by maintaining effective awareness and anticipation.
Situational Awareness Training
Training aimed at enhancing the individual's ability to quickly perceive, comprehend, and predict situations in their environment.
Attention Management
The skilled allocation of cognitive resources towards relevant aspects of the environment; a prerequisite for maintaining situational awareness.
Comprehension
The second level of situational awareness, involving the synthesis of disparate pieces of information to form a holistic picture of the environment.
Decision Making
The process of choosing an appropriate course of action based on situational awareness; highly dependent on the quality of awareness.
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