HUMAN

PERFORMANCE
AND LIMITATIONS
9.2.3
INFORMATION
PROCESS
NAME

: ROSFIKA BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN

NRIC

: 971223-01-5368

INSTRUCTOR : SIR SALWAN BIN MAHFUDZ

COURSE
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: AML-E DCAM PART 66 & DAMT

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CONTENTS
TASK
Introduction
List the elements in information process .
Ilustrated in a block diagram on information
process and explain briefly in process.
What are stimuli?
Conclusion

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INTRODUCTION
First of all , this assignment is purposely to provide an
overview of those key physical and mental human performance
characteristics which are likely to affect an aircraft
maintenance engineer in his information process. This chapter
examines the way the information gathered by the senses is
processed by the brain. Information processing is the process
of receiving information through the senses,analysing it and
making it meaningful. As an aircraft maintenance engineers,
they ar required to use the information received which then
make decision and take action regarding to the information
given in order to ensure safety of aircraft at all times .

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List the elements in information process

a)
b)
c)
d)

Sensory memory
Working memory
Encoding
Short-term memory

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Illustrated in a block diagram on information

process and explain briefly its process.

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Explanation:
Based on block diagram illustrated, the process occur
when there is a physical stimuli are received via the
sensory receptors (eyes, ears, etc.) and stored for a
very brief period of time in sensory stores (sensory
memory). Visual information is stored for up to half a
second in iconic memory and sounds are stored for
slightly longer (up to 2 seconds) in echoic memory.
This enables us to remember a sentence as a sentence,
rather than as a series of disjointed images. rather
than merely as an unconnected string of isolated words,
or a film as a film. So, it is how the information is

processed.

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What are stimuli ?

Stimuli is detectable physical input in the form of sound

visual patterns heat.

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CONCLUSION
To be sum up, it is very important for maintenance
engineer himself to be aware of the information
process as it is the process of receiving information
through the senses, analysing it and making it
meaningful. Apart of that, maintenance personnel must
be familiarized himself with various elements in a
functional model of information process and able to
understand the flow of the model starting from input
stimuli is received of information via the senses, to
outputs such as decision making and actions.

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