exclusion design

tools or systems that have been designed to virtually exclude the possibility of human error. Error triggers or ergonomic traps are first identified and then designed out of the system. See engineering controls. See also fail-safe; prevention design.

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Psychology term of the day

November 22nd 2024

cortical–subcortical motor loop

a loop, made up of projections between the motor cortex and structures in the basal ganglia and the thalamus, that monitors and sequences ongoing motor behaviors.