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  • Chapter 3: The Learning Process › Domains of Learning › Affective Domain

    repairs an aircraft engine. Sample questions for each level of the cognitive domain are provided in Figure 3-9. Affective Domain The affective domain addresses a learner’s emotions toward the educational experience. It includes feelings, values, enthusiasms, motivations ... exhibit confidence in learning? Does the learner display a positive attitude towards safety and risk mitigation? The affective domain provides a framework for teaching in five levels: awareness, response, value, organizing, and integration. In this taxonomy, the learner begins…

  • Chapter 3: The Learning Process › Factors that Affect Perception › Element of Threat

    Element of Threat The element of threat does not promote effective learning. In fact, fear adversely affects perception by narrowing the perceptual field. Confronted with threat, learners tend to limit their attention to the threatening object or condition. The field ... interpreted as threatening makes Beverly less able to accept the experience Bill is trying to provide. It adversely affects all her physical, emotional, and mental faculties. Learning is a psychological process, not necessarily a logical one. Trying to frighten…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Factors Affecting Decision-Making › Recognizing Hazardous Attitudes

    Factors Affecting Decision-Making It is important to stress to a learner that being familiar with the decision-making process does not ensure he or she has the good judgment to be a safe pilot. The ability to make effective ... than just a pilot’s physical condition and recency of experience. Hazardous attitudes contribute to poor pilot judgment and affect the quality of decisions. Attitude can be defined as a personal motivational predisposition to respond to persons, situations, or events…

  • Chapter 3: The Learning Process › Transfer of Learning › How Understanding Affects Memory

    Understanding Affects Memory The ability to remember is greatly affected by the level of understanding of what has been learned. Many studies have demonstrated a depth-of-processing effect on memory: the more deeply humans think about what they have…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Factors Affecting Decision-Making › Stress Management

    Figure 1-13. Three types of stressors that can affect pilot performance. One way of exploring the subject of stress with a learner is to recognize when stress is affecting performance. If a learner seems distracted, or has a particularly ... learner’s life that may be causing a distraction? This may prompt the learner to evaluate how these factors affect performance and judgment. The instructor should also try to determine if there are aspects of pilot training that are causing…

  • Chapter 3: The Learning Process › Factors that Affect Perception › Goals and Values

    Factors that Affect Perception Both internal and external factors affect an individual’s ability to perceive: ⦁ Physical organism ⦁ Goals and values ⦁ Self-concept ⦁ Time and opportunity ⦁ Element of threat Physical Organization The physical organism provides individuals with the perceptual apparatus…