Motivation Choices, Mental Models, and Decision Making

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MotivationChoices, Mental Models, and Decision
Making

• Just a few gems mined from the aviation world.
• By Janeen Kochan, Ph.D.

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The Ruby Focus on the Foundation and Choices
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The Emerald Acceptance and Tolerance (Perfect,
not Perfect)

• Accept yourself and others as gems in the rough
  and undergoing refinement
• Life is a process not an outcome
• Math, physics, and chemistry
• Happiness enjoying the journey
• Accept there are things you cannot change, have
  courage to change the things you can, and learn
  the difference

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The Amethyst Attitudes, Anxieties, and Other
Learned Anomalies

• Acquisition of attitudes, anxieties, beliefs
• Paying attention - 18/40/60 rule
• Scripts, shifts, and mental models
• Biases, base-rates, and thresholds
• Change takes time and repetition
• Positive thoughts positive transmitters

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The Sapphire Shifting Scripts and Other
(Re)learning Strategies

• Metacognition thinking about thinking and
  self-monitoring behaviors
• Eliminate automatic negative thoughts (ANTS)
• Focus on things you are grateful for
• Spend time with positive, uplifting people
• Spend time with people you want to be like
• Breathe deeply
• Learn something new
• Touch others emotionally and physically
• Accept there are things you cannot change, have
  courage to change the things you can, and learn
  to know the difference

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The Diamond Decision How to Choose Alternatives
Consistent with Your Goals

• Choose goals which are reasonable and attainable
• Adopt attitudes which promote your goals
• desire for health and longevity?
• Practice behaviors consistent with your chosen
  lifestyle
• flexibility and a sense-of-humor, co-minglers
• Refuse to compromise when appropriate
• your health and well-being?
• Consistently praise yourself and others
• reinforces healthy behaviors and promotes
  happiness
• Use metacognitive skills in everyday activities

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SpeakerInformation jdkochan_at_aol.com
Janeen Adrion Kochan holds an M.S. in Engineering
from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in
Human Factors from the University of Central
Florida in Orlando, FL. She has been involved in
human factors research in medicine and aviation
since 1980. Primary areas of research include
unexpected events, pilot expertise, human
performance, decision making, stress and fatigue,
automation, workload, resource management, and
training. Recent publications and presentations
in aviation human factors have been in the areas
of unexpected events, automation, human factors
aspects of the Notices to Airmen system,
aeronautical decision-making, pilot workload,
advanced maneuvering and upset recovery training,
and the neuroscientific correlates of human
performance in the study of surprise. Dr. Kochan
is former Boeing 767 Captain and Crew Resource
Management Instructor for a major U.S. Air
Carrier. She has over 13,000 hours flying time in
a variety of aircraft and has type ratings in the
B-767/757, DC-8, DC-9, YS-11, and numerous
corporate jets. She holds current and active
Airframe and Powerplant, Inspector Authorization,
Flight Instructor, and FAA Designated Pilot
Examiner privileges. In addition to providing
training and evaluation services to the aviation
industry, she works under contract with a variety
of organizations in human factors training and
evaluation.