COMMAND
AND CONTROL MINI-SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP
How
Cognitive and Behavioral Factors Influence Command and Control
28-30 October 2003
The Institute for Defense Analyses
Alexandria, Virginia
Read
Aheads
Guide to Topics in Human Cognition and Behavior.
The focus of these links is
providing a background to operations research folks and military folks who have
not had much exposure to contemporary cognitive and behavioral theory.
These were selected on the basis of readability and relevance to the
workshop, as well as being balanced presentations of the issues.
They support and, in some cases, go beyond the several Cognition 101 talks.
These readings are in no way
mandatory. The speakers will not assume you have much familiarity with these
topics.
I. Read-ahead. Cognition 101
This set of links is intended
to provide some of the basics underlying the Cognition 101 talks.
Psychology
of Intelligence Analysis
This is an excellent if
somewhat dated introduction to basic cognitive psychology which will provide a
nice foundation across topics. Meant
as an introduction for Intelligence analysts (CIA), it focuses on literature
form the 1970s and 1980s. It is, as
the author admits, a somewhat simplified picture in a field that is very dynamic
and changing, but it presents a coherent picture of the core of cognitive
psychology. Be aware that in the
last 15 years, there has been more of a trend away from focusing on individual
perception, memory and thinking and more towards social (group) cognition in
situated contexts (domain, culture, community, etc.)
Overview
of work in Situation Awareness
This is a recent overview of
Situation Awareness theories by Mica Endsley, who is widely regarded as the
seminal researcher in this area. Situation
Awareness, or SA, concerns itself with how you come to comprehend your context
or situation in order to make decisions about what to do now or in the future.
It combines a number of ideas from cognitive psychology and applies these
ideas to human computer integration issues.
Overview
of Social Cognition
This is actually from a set of
online class notes maintained at Florida State University that gives a quick
thumbnail discussion of Social Cognitive Theory.
As you will see, there are actually a handful of such guides, all worth
looking at. This is an important
area which developed in parallel with cognitive psychology, but brought in the
idea that social interaction and social context also had a role in individual
cognition.
II. Digging Deeper.
Here is assembled a small
sampling of relevant chapters from a journal called “Annual Review of
Psychology,” available courtesy of
Findarticles.com,
a great resource. Annual Review of
Psychology, published as a hardcover book once a year, features chapters that
summarize changes in a content area over a number of years and thus represent
updates to topic areas. Just a few
have been chosen. You really
don’t need to read through these unless you are interested in getting further
down in the theory and research weeds or to see what more recent thinking on
these topics is like. They are
merely listed here as a resource for ideas.
Attention
and Performance
Thinking
Judgment
and Decision Making
Cognitive
Neuroscience of Constructive Memory
Organizational
Change and Development
Social
Cognition
Interpersonal
Processes
Social
Constructivist Perspectives...
Presentations
Terms
of Reference
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