FOI Prep

Written study prep

The student pilot should demonstrate understanding of procedures, regulations, and the airplane make and model information

pre-solo with a knowledge test from the instrutor.

How may chronic fatigue manifest itself in a pilot?

unwarranted risk taking as a result of impaired judgment.

Chronic fatigue

occurs when there is not enough time to recover from prolonged acute fatigue.

Ignoring minimum fuel reserve requirements is generally the result of overconfidence, disregarding applicable regulations, or

lack of flight planning.

Acute fatigue that occurs as a result of application to a learning task may be evident by a student’s apparent

errors in timing.

Which is a sign of acute fatigue?

Lack of awareness of error accumulation.

Before a leaner can concentrate on learning, which human needs must be satisified?

Physiological.

If Bill teaches landing procedures to Beverly on the first flight lesson, she is likely to feel inferior and frustrated which weakens the intended learning connection. Which law of learning is demonstrated in this scenario?

Effect.

Which obstacle to learning is greater deterrent to learning pilot skills than is generally recognized?

Impatience.

When students subconsciously use the defense mechanism called rationalization, they

cannot accept the real reasons for their behavior.

Which law of learning is the instructor using when preparing the learner for a real life situation?

Intensity.

What is a common mistake among instructors at the application level of learning?

They do not teach to a higher level.

Insights as applied to learning involve a person’s

relating and grouping of associated perceptions.

When a student becomes bewildered and lost in the advanced phase of training after completing the early phase without grasping the fundamentals, the defense mechanism is usually in the form of

resignation.

Things most often repeated are best remembered because of which prinicple of learning?

Principle of exercise.

Insights, as applied to learning, involve a person’s

grouping of perceptions into meaningful wholes.

Which principle of learning implies that a student will learn more from the real thing than from a substitute?

Principle of intensity.

What human need becomes the primary influence on behavior once the stuent feels physically safe and comfortable?

Belonging.

While learning the subject at hand, students may be learning other things as well. This type of learning is sometimes referred to as

incidental.

Observing painstaking self-control in a learner’s reaction could be a learner’s

abnormal reaction to stress.

A learner has memorized the process of taking off but cannot combine it with any other task. What stage of skill acquisition is exhibited?

Cognitive stage.

Which of the following allows the student to control the pace of their instruction?

Multimedia.

Which statement is true about a lesson plan?

It should be created for each individual lesson.

Which stage of skill acquisition has a student achieved if they can fly an ILS approach while talking on the radio?

Automatic response.

Instructional aids used in the teaching/learning process can be used

to clarify the relationship between material objects and concepts.

The demonstration-performance method is based on the idea that people learn best by

doing.

An aviation instructor should write performance based objectives that

fit the desired outcome of a particular lesson.

How can an instructor help an impatient learner understand the need for preliminary training?

The procedure and elements mastered in each step should be clearly identified in explaining or demonstrating the performance of the subsequent step.

Which is true regarding the length of time devoted to practice?

A beginning student may reach a point at which additional practice can be unproductive and may even be harmful.

The basic ‘telling-and-doing’ technique of instruction consists of several steps in proper order. They are

instructor tells - instructor does; student tells - instructor does; student tells - student does.

What is the best way for an instructor to verify effective communication with the learner?

Ensure similarity between the idea of the instructor and the idea received by the learner.

Drill and practice method of training delivery is based on the learning principle of

exercise.

Which of the following correctly identifies the accurate perception and understanding of the factors and conditions within the four fundamental risk elements that affect flight safety?

Situational awareness.

What is one advantage of a lecture?

Uses time economically.

When an instructor tells the learner what is expected, and keeps the learner informed, it reduces feelings of

insecurity.

What stage of skill acquisition is exhibited when a learner demonstrates takeoff procedures and does the maneuver correctly and consistently?

Automatic response stage.

What is a primary consideration in planning for learner skill acquisition?

Time devoted to practice.

When developing an instructional activity, what is the next step after the overall objective has been established?

Identifying blocks of learning.

With regard to the characteristics of a well-planned lesson, each lesson should contain

new material that is related to the lesson previously presented.

During oral quizzing, what should an effective question be limited to?

Who, what, when, where, how or why, not in combination.

What is the primary purpose of integrated flight instruction?

To form firm habit patterns for observing and referencing flight instruments.

A lesson plan, if constructed properly, will provide an outline for

the teaching procedure to be used in a single instructional period.

The distinguishing characteristic of an informal lecture is the

active student participation.

When under stress, individuals usually react

by exhibiting rational thinking, rapid reaction, and with extreme sensitivity to their surroundings.

In which stage of skill acquisition is a student when they are able to explain the steps involved in flying a traffic pattern but are NOT able to perform the task?

Cognitive.

The way to prepare a student to perform a task is to

provide a clear, step-by-step example.

A sign that a student may be experiencing acute fatigue is

neglecting secondary tasks.

Block of learning

Should be fairly consistent in scope.

The most significant characteristic of group learning is

Active participation of the student.

Which teaching method requires less time to present a given amount of material?

Teaching lecture method.

For the integrated method of flight instruction to be fully effective, the use of instrument reference should begin

The first time each new maneuver is introduced.

What are the three elements of the instruction when planning a guided discussion lesson?

Attention, motivation, and overview.

To be effective at oral quizzing during the conduct of a lesson, questions should

Be tailored to the stage of training.

What kind of software responds quickly to the student’s choices and commands?

Interactive Video.

Which method of presentation is desirable for teaching a skill as ground school lesson on the flight computer?

Demonstration/performance.

A learning plateau may be defined as the

Point at which progress appears to slow down or cease before once again increasing.

A systematic classification scheme for sorting learning objectives is referred to as a

Taxonomy.

during the development step of lesson organization, the instructor should develop the subject matter to help the learner

Achieve the desired learning outcome.

Perhaps the most significant characteristic of group learning is that students tend to

Actively participate in the learning process.

(Refer to figure 1.) Section F is titled:

Student’s Action.

Every lesson, when adequately developed, falls logically into the steps of the teaching process -

preparation, presentation, application, and review and evaluation.

The method of arranging lesson material from the simple to complex, past to present, and known to unknown, is one that

shows the relationships of the main points of the lesson.

A question directed to an entire group to stimulate thought and response from each group member is identified as

Overhead.

Which is a true statement concerning the use of instructional aids?

Instructional aids should be designed to cover the key points in a lesson.

Motivations in the form of reproof and threats should be avoided with all but the student who is

overconfident and impulsive.

True perfomance as a professional is based on study and

research.

In planning any instructional activity, the first consideration should be to

determine the overall objectives and standards.

Which is one of the ways in which anxiety will affect a student?

Anxiety may limit the student’s ability to learn form perceptions.

The factor contributes most to a student’s ability to remain receptive to new experiences is

positive self-concept.

To form proper habits and correct techniques during training, an instructor should

insist on correct techniques and procedures from the outset of training.

One possible indication of a student’s abnormal reaction to stress would be

extreme overcooperation.

One of the most effective tools an instructor can use during a guided discussion with learners is

an interim summary of what the student accomplished.

Which statement about the guided discussion method of teaching is true?

The learner needs a level of knowledge about the topic to be discussed.

In a guided discussion, lead-off questions should usually begin with

Why or How.

Models, mock-ups and cut-aways used as instructional aids are especially adaptable to

small group discussions.

Assigment of goals the student considers difficult

can be an effective method of promoting motivation and learning.

What are the elements of the demonstration/performance method of teaching?

Explanation, demonstration, student performance, instructor supervision, and evaluation.

Some of the more advanced computer-based training (CBT) applications allow students to progress through a series of interactive segments where the presentation varies as a result of their

responses.

Why would an instructor want the learner to reach the associative stage in development?

So the learner will be able to assess their own progress and make adjustments.

Which is a valid reason for the use of proper oral quizzing during a lesson?

Reveals the effectiveness of the instructor’s training methods.

Educational objective levels for the cognitive domain include

recall, comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation.

Education objective levels for the psychomotor domain include

observation, imitation, practice, and habit.

what are the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?

Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

In most cases, why should instructors avoid using abstractions with learners?

Abstractions do not evoke the same specific items of experience in the minds of the learners that the instructors intends.

Short-term memory (STM) is time limited, and has a capacity limited

to usually seven bits or chunks of information.

To communicate effectively, instructors must

reveal a positive attitude while delivering their message.

To ensure effective communication, an aviation instructor should consider that

familiarities and motor skill abilities of learners may vary.

What is one major reason for understanding the cognitive domain?

To assist the learner in correlation and application.

Which factor affecting perception is proportional to the effective use of a properly executed training syllabus?

Time and opportunity.

The educational objective levels of the affective domain are

awareness, response, value, organizing, and integration.

By using abstractions in the communication process, the communicator

uses words that stand for ideas that can not be directly experienced.

An instructor’s words cannot communicate the desired meaning to the learner unless the

learner has some prior experience with the concepts to which the instructor is referring.

Probably the greatest single barrier to effective communication in the teaching process is

lack of a common experience level between the instructor and student.

The educational objective levels for the cognitive domain are

knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

An example of a skill involving the psychomotor domain would be

operating sophisticated maintenance equipment.