Outline of My Eighth Oral Presentation
Who’s Got Skills??
This is a presentation of “Driving lessons: Exploring Systems That Make Traffic Safer” Edited By J. Peter Rothe; Published by The University of Alberta Press; 2003; Pages 211-219
Instructions for this oral presentation may be found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonpsy22/g22-oral.htm
1. What’s a skill mommy?
A. Skill is defined by the text as a learned ability used to perform a task effectively and efficiently.
a. Recent interests in skill derives from industrial psychology and human-engineering research.
b. From these newfound results, skill has been redefined to include mental processes and abilities, which nowadays are thought to be trainable entities.
B. Trainable human traits
a. Sociability
b. Decision-making
c. Communication
d. Managerial
e. Thinking
C. Skills pertaining to driving
a. Driving researchers and educators argue that driving is a complex skill and present the idea to non-experts as a reason for taking driving more seriously.
b. On the flip side, to many non-experts (presumably your everyday average Joe) driving has been partially guided, however for the most part driving was self-taught.
i. Thus making the skill of driving easy and as natural as walking.
c. In the human-engineering sense, driving skills also involve the purely mental activity needed to maintain situational awareness and manage vehicle systems in a wide range of conditions.
2. How do I get skills daddy??
A. Built on the compilation of broad and basic human abilities.
a. There are two important fundamental capacities that are most often forgotten.
i. Human information-processing capacities have basic and defined limitations.
ii. Mental and psycho-physical (i.e. Hand-eye coordination) differ profusely between individuals and also within that same unique individual.
B. These capacities, like everything else, is trainable
a. I.e. Israeli fighter-pilots trained attention-management skills.
3. Mommy wow! I’m a big kid now!!
A. Experience does wonders. With more experience the better you become in recognizing potential confrontational hazards and driving in general.
B. Some research indicate that there is what’s know as a learned hierarchy of skills needed to be a proficient and efficient driver.
a. Novice drivers tend to lack some latter skills due to lack of time accumulated on the road as compared to experienced drivers, those who have at least a year of driving under their belt.
C. Table 14.1 illustrates driver skill categories. Check it out to see what type of skills you have. If you need more suggestions take a gander at some helpful links below.
4. Helpful Links
www.tesi2005.com/timetable/session.asp?session=8A
www.scienceservingsociety.com/ts/text/ch09.htm
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonpsy/traffic/tpintro.html
5. My Home Page – www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2005/nerona/home.htm