PSY 250 : PSY252 Wehe-1.docx
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What do they show us about how we think about attention: attention is a limited resource, are we able to do two things at once, divided attention research, shaffer (1975) had skilled typist recite nursery rhymes allowed while they typed. With practice we can perform a task automatically: skilled performance, how do we become skilled in complex tasks, what does automaticity mean, automatic processing, a task is automatic if: Redelmeier and tebshirani (1997: nejm: what happens to your risk of accidents when using a cell phone, do hands free divices help, peripheral interference hypothesis, attention hypothesis, experimental evidence. Strayer and johnston (2001: stimulated braking in response to red lights, task 1: brake to red/green lights, task 2: brake while using cell phone, task 3: brake while listening to radio, half of their ss reported that using a cell phone did not, attention and driving make driving more difficult.
