What is on your mind? Using the perceptual cycle
model and critical decision method to understand the
decision-making process in the cockpit
What is on your mind? Using the perceptual cycle
model and critical decision method to understand the
decision-making process in the cockpit
Aeronautical decision-making is complex as there is not always a clear coupling between the decision made and decision outcome. As such, there is a call for process-orientated decision research in order to understand why a decision made sense at the time it was made. Schema theory explains how we interact with the world using stored mental representations and forms an integral part of the perceptual cycle model (PCM); proposed here as a way to understand the decision-making process. This paper qualitatively analyses data from the critical decision method (CDM) based on the principles of the PCM. It is demonstrated that the approach can be used to understand a decision-making process and highlights how influential schemata can be at informing decision-making. The reliability of this approach is established, the general applicability is discussed and directions for future work are considered.
critical decision method, perceptual cycle model, schema theory, aeronautical decision-making
1232-1250
Plant, Katherine L.
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Stanton, Neville A.
351a44ab-09a0-422a-a738-01df1fe0fadd
2013
Plant, Katherine L.
3638555a-f2ca-4539-962c-422686518a78
Stanton, Neville A.
351a44ab-09a0-422a-a738-01df1fe0fadd
Plant, Katherine L. and Stanton, Neville A.
(2013)
What is on your mind? Using the perceptual cycle
model and critical decision method to understand the
decision-making process in the cockpit.
Ergonomics, 56 (8), .
(doi:10.1080/00140139.2013.809480).
Abstract
Aeronautical decision-making is complex as there is not always a clear coupling between the decision made and decision outcome. As such, there is a call for process-orientated decision research in order to understand why a decision made sense at the time it was made. Schema theory explains how we interact with the world using stored mental representations and forms an integral part of the perceptual cycle model (PCM); proposed here as a way to understand the decision-making process. This paper qualitatively analyses data from the critical decision method (CDM) based on the principles of the PCM. It is demonstrated that the approach can be used to understand a decision-making process and highlights how influential schemata can be at informing decision-making. The reliability of this approach is established, the general applicability is discussed and directions for future work are considered.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 26 June 2013
Published date: 2013
Keywords:
critical decision method, perceptual cycle model, schema theory, aeronautical decision-making
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