David lee strayer director, center for the prevention of distracted driving. Listening to the radio or books on tape did not impair driving performance, suggesting that listening. The first book that i read on the topic of adhd that really made a difference was called driven to distraction. This clear and valuable book dispels a variety of myths about attention deficit disorder. According to strayers laboratory research, cellphone drivers were also more likely to miss traffic.
What did a study by strayer and johnston 2001 regarding. Recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood reprinted ed by hallowell, ned, ratey, dr. Dualtask studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone david l. Dualtask studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone dl strayer, wa johnston psychological science 12 6, 462466, 2001. Telephone conversation impairs sustained visual attention. In contrast, divided attention tasks allow us to determine how well individuals can attend to many sources of information at once. Strayer and johnston, 2001, choice task levy, pashler. To test the power of selective attention to induce failures of awareness, neisser and colleagues neisser, 1979 designed a variant of this task in which participants watched a video of two teams of players. The effect of a cell phone conversation on performance such as not noticing someones brake lights or responding more slowly to them is just as significant when the individual is having a conversation. Help us improve your experience by providing feedback on this page. What a masterpiece of diagnosis and heartfelt concern. A very readable, highly informative and helpful book. Dualtask studies of simulated driving and conversion on a cellular telephone strayer and johnston.
The reason might well be the same mistaken intuition that makes inattentional blindness surprising. A more recent book by the same authors, entitled delivered from distraction, may be the best current book on the subject. Interdisciplinary teaching grand award the psychology of traffic, 2011. A different perception 1997 when you worry about the child you love 1997 worry 1998 connect. Attention is not affected as long as one is using a handsfree phone. Prior research has established that the manual manipulation of equipment e. Cell phoneinduced failures of visual attention during simulated driving. Dual task studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular.
Johnston and strayer 02042015 driven to distraction. Failures of awareness the case of intentional blindness. I have never read a book that hit home with more force in my life than did dr. Although people believe they can multitask, few can.
Dualtask studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone. By contrast, the attentional hypothesis attributes any interference to the diversion of attention from driving to the. What did a study by strayer and johnston 2001 regarding the effects of attention on driving conclude. View notes johnston and strayer from psyc 2150 at university of virginia. Home psychological science research in action driven to distraction.
David strayer is a cognitive psychologist at the university of utah who has investigated the effects of distraction on performance in numerous studies. Citeseerx scientific documents that cite the following paper. Johnston journal of experimental psychology, 2003 this research examined the effects of handsfree cell phone conversations on simulated driving. There are a number of more traditional sources of driver distraction.
Moreover, strayer and johnston 2001 manipulated the difficulty of the. Perhaps more importantly, auditory distractions can induce realworld failures to see. Citeseerx citation query w 2001 driven to distraction. I thought i would give it a read and i am a little surprised to say that i think reading 2015. The participants task was to drive through each scenario, following all the rules of the road. Here are some real and effective ways you can implement to improve your concentration and sustained selective attention. Participants were instructed to drive on a multilane freeway and. Roadmap of the effect of cell phone use while driving. Driven to distraction 1994 answers to distraction 1996 attention deficit disorder. Strayer and johnston 2001 examined what addition al effect increasing the complexity of the driving environment had on pur suit tracking performance whil e using a mobile phone.
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