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Chapter 8 week 21- Donald Broadbent audio (Is there a price to pay for…
Chapter 8 week 21- Donald Broadbent audio
Is there a price to pay for processing what is going on in the background?
Distraction
Makes you more adaptive to circumstances
Selective attention
Dichotic listening experiments - physical properties?
Male/female voices or different accents helps seperate sounds
Cognitive ergonomics
=studies, evaluates and designs tasks, jobs, products, environments and systems and how they interact with humans
Are open plan offices good?
No
Distractions
..i.e someone saying your name in the background grabs your attention
Model of attention
Starting point?
RAF colleagues pulling the wrong lever
Lab studies
Effects of noise on efficiency reduced by 20%
Distraction does not diminish after irritation goes away/think they are used to the noise.
Creative tasks- loss of efficiency