[Given the videos below, and your textbook discuss the following questions] Why is change blindness more likely to occur in the context of driving ?

[Given the videos below, and your textbook discuss the following questions]

1. Why is change blindness more likely to occur in the context of driving ? (Strayer, Drews, & Johnston, 2003; Strayer, Drews, & Crouch, 2006)
2. What does this evidence say about talking on your cell phone (or texting) while driving? How could this information be important in your own life?

Driver Distraction, Change Blindness, and Cell Phones 

Review these videos after watching the Attention ("awareness") tests 

• Driver Distractions, Change Blindness, and Cell Phones (Video) 
• David Strayer- Driver Distraction (Information and Videos) 

Optional Video (Suggested by Jesse Byrd): Massachusetts teen sentenced to prison for texting while driving 

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