Existence And Impact Of Inattentional Blindness

The essay, Cellphones by Rex Murphy is an informal persuasive essay on the topic of cell phones and how distracting they are. The essay is a cause and effect essay that implicitly conveys the thesis, arguing that cell phones are distracting and inhibit driving. The writer attempts to use humour mixed with a very negative tone to raise awareness among Toronto citizens of the dangers of cell phones, following the movement that calls for cell phones to be banned in cars in Toronto. Although distracted driving is a very serious issue, the writer failed to write an objective, relevant and valid essay that is effective in convincing people.

Studies have found that as the phone use increases, your attention goes elsewhere, “revealing that the more heavily student relied on their phones in their everyday lives, the greater the cognitive penalty they suffered” (Carr 3). The more focus a cell phone receives the more a person will suffer mentally. At UCSD around 520 students were given two standardized tests of intellectual acuity. “The only variable in the experiment was the location of the subjects’ smartphones. Some of the students.. place their phones in front of them on their desks; others were told to stow their phones in their pockets.. others were required to leave their phones in a different room” (Carr 3). The results from this study were conspicuous. It’s self-evident that anyone with phone insight had worst scores than those who didn't have their phones at all or had them in their pockets. Technology has take over us and it is draining our

“Distracted driving refers to any nondriving activity that takes motorists ' attention away from the safe operation of their vehicles” (Leone). Every time a driver gets in a vehicle and decides to use a cell phone to have a conversation, either talking or texting, they put themselves and others lives in danger. The convenience a cell phone and the capabilities they offer have made them a substantial distraction and a cause of significant source of vehicle accidents and fatalities. There are three different types of distractions: visual, manual and cognitive. Cell phone use is the most dangerous distraction because it involves all three different types of distraction and plays a part in the increasing issue of distracted driving. Even

There are both cognitive and physical factors that contribute to accidents when drivers talk on their cell phones and/or text behind the wheel. The primary cognitive factor is that an individual’s attention is divided when he or she is paying attention to more than one thing at a time (Goldstein, 2011). For example, a driver’s attention is on the road and perhaps how far the car ahead of him/her is, but at the same time is also trying to read a text message on a cellular device. This divided attention reduces the reaction speed and driving performance of the driver because there are not as many cognitive resources available to focus his/her attention on the most important thing: driving. When the driver is processing

The article “How Smart-phones Hijack Our Minds” by Nicolas Carr is about the destructive use of smart phones. So many people depend on their smart phones that it damages with the outcome of their work. Smart phones also make it harder to focus and remember since everything is now saved

Nearly 6,000 people are killed connecting to the outcome of cell phone use while driving, according to Edmunds.com (7). Texting and talking on the phone throughout the time that a person is driving can have deadly consequences, but people still don’t seem to want to give up risking their life. There are many issues that can happen while on the road related to the usage of cell phones. It is important to stop people from looking at their phones while driving, because it is extremely distracting and not safe. Even hands free devices are not as safe as they seem to be. There have to be consequences for people using their cell phones while driving in order to improve the people’s safety. According to Edmunds.com, cell phones are known as distractions everywhere in the world and have created several concerns to several countries (9).

Change blindness is a phenomenon in attention where drastic changes to a scene can go unnoticed. This is important to the field of Human Sensation and Perception because it helps illustrate how a visual scene is processed. Specifically it shows how even if there is direct attention to a scene, there are times when drastic changes can occur without perception of the change occurring. With extensive research already conducted illustrating this effect, new research has recently been conducted studying different types of scene changes in the hopes of understanding which changes are easier or harder to notice. The results of these studies were quantified by the measurement of change detection time (usually reported in seconds). This subset of change blindness research has far-reaching practical applications, especially in the field of security and law enforcement. By applying the knowledge of which type of stimuli lead to longer change detection times training programs could be developed that allow this population to improve their observation skills.

Blindness in the United States: The Oppression of the Visually Impaired in America Madelyn R. Smith Indiana University- Indianapolis   The United States has many minority groups that face oppression. In the media today, most of the minority issues that are highlighted involve the LGBTQ community, women, and racial minorities. Differently-abled people are rarely given

While driving, cell phones impair the driver's visual skills. Specifically in Impactful Distractions by Nathan Seppa he elaborates on how “special vision-tracking devices showed that conversations requiring extra thought or concentration diminished drivers’ extent of visual scanning” (Seppa 2). Having good visual awareness is essential for driving, but when drivers talk and drive, their visual awareness sharply decreases. Drivers need to be aware of their surroundings since driving is unpredictable. Cars are machines that thrive on the fact that humans operate them. People need to be visually attentive while driving, yet cell phones prohibit them from doing so. Additionally, David Strayer explains that “‘a cell phone draws attention away from

Studies conducted from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows that using a cell phone while driving significantly impairs a driver’s reaction time and triples the risk of being involved in a crash or near-crash, and text messaging increases crash risk by a multiple of 8 for all ages (NHTSA, 2009). Situational awareness is significantly decreased while engaging in distracted driving, and in turn inattention blindness is increased drastically creating a potentially deadly situation on the roads. A driver who is multitasking has less brain function available and thus literally fails to see or pay attention to things that are squarely in the field of vision (Texting and Driving, 2010). On the other hand there are those that may be able to multitask successfully though the challenge is

First of all, distraction is one of the major causes leading to accidents. From the moment of picking up the phone, to read a text, to the

In the article, Did You See the Unicycling Clown? Inattentional Blindness while Walking and Talking on a Cell Phone, by Ira Hyman and associates from Western Washington University, Hyman studied the concept of divided attention during walking. He conducted two studies, the first analyzed what students behavior was like

If you’re walking across the street in Honolulu, you’ll want to put your phone away. A new law went into effect making it illegal to be looking at a screen while crossing the street. This bans something many of us are guilty of - texting and walking or looking

In Australia the legal implications indicating how the country’s laws have responded to drivers being distracted by mobile phones is as a result of the high numbers of car related accidents and incidents being credited to mobile phones. Australian law has quickly and gradually become stringent in response to the use of mobile phones within cars and the distractions they cause to the driver. This is because of the physical, psychological, societal and human costs involved when an individual is in a car accident as a result of something minor such as simply being distracted from a mobile phone, a factor which could’ve easily been avoided.

Thesis on Cell Phone Use Despite an effective way of communication, using cell phones during driving results in the distracted attention of driver increasing road safety concerns.