6.2 ODEX

• Observation


  Taking notice - Complete and accurate awareness by an individual of their surroundings, using all major senses to register and recognize its operational and/or intelligence significance
• Description


  Actual and factual reporting of one's own observations or the reported sensory experience recounted by another
• The only way you become aware of anything is through your senses
• Attention


  The psychological process involved in becoming aware of a fact (aware of the existence of a fact)
• Perception


  The psychological process involved in understanding this fact of awareness through understanding (e.g. smelling a flower and guessing its name)
• Report


  The psychological process involved in identifying by name in one's own mind some facts which have been perceived, and narrating what was perceived/identified
• Three types of attention

  • Involuntary (no control, no effort)
  • Voluntary (more reliable but not as dependable as habitual)
  • Habitual (little effort, maximum control, most reliable)
• Factors that influence attention

  • Size (normal to abnormal)
  • Change (from silence to noise)
  • Repetition
  • Striking quality (to attract attention)
  • Interest
  • Organic condition of the observer
  • Suggestion
• Factors involved in perception

  • Mental capacity
  • Educational background
  • Empirical background
  • Occupational background
• Factors governing reports

  • Vocabulary
  • Time lag
  • Recurrence of similar incident
• Memory


  A complex group of mental functions and states of awareness that are concerned with the storing of experience and its reappearance in consciousness or its utilization in subsequent activity
• Functions of memory

  • Storing information
  • Recollection
• Types of memory

  • Sensory (learning by repetition)
  • Intellectual (higher evaluation)
• How recollection may be brought about

  • Recall (reproducing a past experience)
  • Recognition (identifying a perception as having been experienced at some time in the past)
• One of the most important fundamentals of memory and memory training must be the creation of interest. The object itself and the interest aroused by this object are of great importance to memory.
• Means of reception

  • Eye-minded
  • Ear-minded
  • Motor-minded (involves touch, smell and taste)