How is Situation Awareness Created?
1-
You must set your
intentions and task-list.
2-
You must set your goals
according to your task-list.
3-
You must clearly identify
the procedure to be executed periodically.
4-
This procedure must be simple
and homogenous.
5-
You must initiate the
automatic execution of this procedure by executing
the
first time consciously(with attention).
6-
Do not forget that after a
decay period of time automaticity will end.
7-
If excessive attention is
required for other reasons automaticity may be lost.
You
have to reinitiate the automaticity in this case.
8-
In cases of difficult
situations, you may use divided attention to use conscious
execution
of the procedure.
9-
Do not forget that you will
not notice the closure of the secondary attended event or the disappearence of
awareness due to the nature of the closure of the secondary task[1].
AN EXAMPLE:
Using the rear mirror during driving a car.
1-
You want to be aware of the
behaviour of cars behind your car.
2-
You would like to notice
any movement at the rear window that is close to your car.
3-
This movement appearing at
the rear mirror should popup to your consciousness and
make you notice
automaticly.
4-
This should make you look
at the rear mirror with a very short look without losing the view in the front
of the car.
5-
You should initiate this
procedure by looking at the rear mirror once.
6-
You have to update this
automatic process once in a while as it stops involuntarily after a decay
period.
7-
If excessive attention is
used for other cases, such as something in the front or somebody talking deep
subjects in the car, automaticity may be lost.
You have to reinitiate the process again,by looking once at the rear mirror.
8-
In difficult situations,
you can check the rear mirror frequently and look at the front of the car at
the same time using divided attention.
9-
Do not forget that you will
not notice you have lost the awareness of the situation at the behind of the
car in case of using divided attention or awareness automaticity.
REFERENCES:
[1]
Saral, Ali R., ‘Closure of the Secondary Task’, (2018)
