Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Closed Captioning, Automatic Train Operation, Captcha

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

Document Summary

Multitap: number keypad entry method (way of chunking, thanks 8,4,4,2,6,6,5,5,7,7,7,7. Predictive text: software uses probabilities of language to make text entry on keypad more efficient, thanks 842657, allows fluent text entry within normal range of language processing speed. Most texting is phatic (social) communication: language exchange for sole purpose of building and maintaining social relationships. Way of engaging in social discourse (not communicative in the way its defined texting is back and forth) Subjective well-being: personal rating of happiness and life satisfaction, face-to-face social interactions increase in subjective well-being, social media interactions decrease in subjective well-being. Texting doesn"t fulfill social roles compared to face-to-face. Negative correlation between in-class texting and final grade! interactions. Textism: innovative use of language in text messaging (effortful) people would shorten and misspell words on purpose. Created to save time (people adopted it as a general mode as.