Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Inattentional Blindness, Handsfree, Electrophysiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B

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Hands-free devices: hands-free devices do not mitigate risks of talking on a cell phone while driving, so it"s not just that your hands are occupied. Phones and multitasking: people greatly overestimate ability to multitask i. e. , alternating attention between two or more cognitively demanding tasks. Indicates how much attention is allocated to a task: p300 effect on multitasking: In the first condition, both actors spoke in a clearly audible voice, while in the second condition only one of the actors spoke in an audible voice. In the third condition, one of the actors performed the scripted conversation via cell phone with an actor in another train car. Send in the clowns: hyman et al. So annoying: public cell phone conversations annoying, because cell phone uses talk louder, nope. Text messaging on the go: texting while driving, 23 times more likely to have an accident whilst texting while during.