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Which of the following is true of automaticity and highly automated tasks (that humans perform)?

When designing for long term memory, how can we support correct mental models? 

Consider the knowledge, rules, skills scale, and expertise in decision making. If a decision maker has no automatic response or rules to rely on and goes through an analytical process to make decisions, what level are they operating on? 

Fill in the blank…if you must perform an action to a high level of accuracy, you must act BLANK. 

In voluntary task switching, we discussed five factors that determine the attractiveness of a task. In this context, what does time on task refer to? 

We know that associations in long-term memory can impact decay and ease of retrieval. What else impacts memory decay or ease of retrieval? 

Consider an automated system being used in an operating room; this system has a “Quick Quiet” function so alerts can be instantly silenced if an emergency occurs with the patient until physicians are ready to reactivate the system. We discussed some examples of things humans are better at vs. things machines are better at. Why is it important that the system can be silenced/put in the background during an emergency? 

When we design for long-term memory, what is an important consideration? 

Hypotheses that come to mind quickly are believed to have a higher probability of being correct. Which heuristic is this? 

Regarding the cognitive environment, degree of knowledge in the world refers to what?