Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Natural-Language Processing, Language Exchange, Speech Recognition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

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More dangerous to use a cell phone while driving than being drunk. Having a passenger does not affect driving like talking on a cell phone does because the passenger can point out traffic obstacles. Even hands free talking on a cell phone is dangerous because it is using a large portion of your brain processing ability that should be focused on driving. Multitasking: the alternation of attention between two or more cognitive tasks that take in different inputs, engage in different processes, and produce different outputs. Inattentional blindness: the failure to perceive or remember a stimulus directly in the visual field because another cognitively demanding task is being performed. Incidental recognition memory paradigm: a procedure in which participants are tested on their ability to remember items that they were not instructed to pay attention to (like road signs). Participants talking on a hands free cell phone only recalled half as many road signs as those without a cell phone.