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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February 25th 2025

Yerkes–Dodson law

a law stating that the relation between motivation (arousal) and performance can be represented by an inverted U-curve (see inverted-U hypothesis). [Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson(1879–1955), U.S. psychologists]