Those Cognition books! I was using Reed - and they discussed about a pilot
flying into a building in the attention chapter. We were in that section
during 9/11.
At 11:55 AM 2/17/2009 -0500, you wrote:
File this under awful coincidence:
A student in my cognition class lost a parent in last week's plane crash
outside of Buffalo. This week's readings on Attention (Ch. 4 in
Sternberg's Cognitive Psychology) included this passage:
Consider an example of what Langer (1989) calls "mindlessness." In 1982,
a pilot and copilot went through a routine checklist prior to takeoff.
They mindlessly noted that the anti-icer was "off," as it should be under
most circumstances. But it should not have been off under the icy
conditions in which they were preparing to fly. The flight ended in a
crash that killed 74 passengers.
Ugh. What are the chances...
Patrick
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Dr. Deborah S. Briihl
Dept. of Psychology and Counseling
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
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Well I know these voices must be my soul...
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