Human factors is defined as the discipline that tries to improve human-technology interaction. In this discipline, technology refers to
a. basic tools.
b. computers.
c. machines.
d. all of these.
D
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Groupthink involves a tendency for:
a. groups to produce more ideas than individuals working alone b. the group's dominant point of view to become stronger over time c. groups to produce fewer ideas than individuals working alone d. members of a group to seek consensus and ignore or suppress dissenting opinions
Strategies used in a cognitive interview that help recreate the context in which classroom information was learned include
a. writing down everything you remember, including trivial details. b. using dream analysis to remember details consolidated during sleep. c. recalling things from a single, focused viewpoint. d. skilled use of mnemonics.
Research studies in which half the participants are told they are drinking alcohol and half are not, with half of each group actually receiving alcohol and half not, are using the ___________ design
A. balanced placebo B. split-half C. alcohol control D. phase II
Whom should you blame if you can't figure out how your VCR works?
(a) yourself, for not reading the manual (b) the manufacturer, for making the machine too complicated (c) the designer, whose conceptual model was not like the conceptual model of the typical user (d) society