**FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY. PSYCHOLOGY OF OPERATOR BEHAVIOR**.
Doctor **N.V. Borisova**. The nature of the operator's work depends on his profession. It is either creative in nature or does not require significant creative abilities. From the point of view of volumetric-dynamic characteristics, camera work is monotonous, monotonous and programmed. The content of work operations is influenced by the state of the object under observation and environmental factors (weather conditions, the presence of rustles, noise, vibration, etc.). However, in production these factors are constantly changing, and the constancy of the object of influence is disrupted. Operators of a technical device, which is expedient by its nature in relation to a constant condition (agricultural machines, atomizers, centrifuges, etc.), are controlled from the point of view of their safety, while operators of other professions, throughout the entire process, are forced to independently avoid failures in case of possible wrong actions. Consequently, the operator is constantly exposed to greater complexity of both mental and physical overload, which determine a greater degree of responsibility for the work performed. A characteristic feature of the mental state of operators is the predominance of emotional stress over physical fatigue. Fatigue occurs when