APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nail Gun, Long-Term Memory, Mental Model
4 Apr 2016
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Entered the walkway by pulling on the handle of one door; then went to the second door and found that the door would not open when she pulled on the handle. So, concluding that the door was lockedreturned to the irst door to exit and found herself trapped in the walkway when the door wouldn"t move when she pulled on its handle (lee, 2011, p. 17) A blend of engineering, psychology, sociology, computer science, motor behaviour, etc. Human error: depends on the goal of the operator and the system. Most errors are human errors typically due to the design. Human error classiications: errors of omission. Completely forgets to perform a step: errors of commission. Timing error e. g. too fast/ slow. Sequence error e. g. improper order of components. Quantitative/ qualitative error e. g. movement form. Can be made up of multiple people/machines: a system is an entity. Purposeful or goal-directed: machine refers to any type of physical object.
