PSYC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Color Vision, Distracted Driving, List Of Toho Alien Races
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Study question: most provinces and states have laws prohibiting driving while talking on a hand held cell phone. Every time you get a new letter you have to forget the first one you learned) high multimedia users have a low hit rate but a very high false alarm rate: task 3: task switching. Switch cost: difference between performing 2 identical trials back to back & performing 2 different trials back to back: no. In fact they are poorer at multitasking than light multitaskers. Why do they multitask: heavy multitaskers are more easily distracted (ex. The original study: black and white shirts passing a ball, focus on how many passes black shirts make- miss the woman walking through with an umbrella. Change blindness (laboratory: short term memory gets erased with the flicker. Change blindness (field: asking for directions, board goes by person who ends up staying behind it and another person comes out- other person doesn(cid:495)t notice the change.
