How To Evaluate Cognitive Failure Essay

Humans are generally rational in the actions and behaviour. Most of their actions is largely driven by planned behaviour divided into course of actions or steps. Nevertheless, accordingly to noted psychologists Donald Norman, cognitive or motor misinterpretations are possible at every stage of this process (1986). This cognitive failures, as they often called, can lead to situations that include action slips or absent-mindedness. This is something that affects everyone regardless of age. According to James Reason, there are three types of cognitive failures which can occur at different stages of the planning process and these include, slips, lapses and mistakes (1990). The following paper will critical evaluate cognitive failure theories by …show more content…
Wonder turned to panic that I might not have locked the door. The skill-based behaviour model would point to operating in a fully-automatic mode but it is clear that there was a failure somewhere because I could not remember if I had locked the door or not. This model would also apply to an instance when I left my house to meet up with friends for brunch. Only, when I was walking to my car, I kept thinking to myself, “Where are my keys?” A few seconds later, I felt embarrassed because I realized I was playing with them all along in my …show more content…
Reason notes that errors can sometimes be causes by the behaviour of others, the relationships formed between them and the social interaction (1990). For instance, there was one instance when we had some distant relatives visiting for the weekend who I had not seen since I was very young. My aunt asked me how old I was and for whatever reason, I could not recall for a few seconds. While it was clearly a simple question, my seemed to struggle with the interpretation for a few seconds of the question, which delayed by ability to answer with my