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    Classroom Distractions

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    DISTRACTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM We are in the classroom everyday focusing in our education targeting to get good grade but we face lot of classroom distractions .We students have different brain capacities, we think different ,we work different and we have contrasting opinion .Because we are diverse in many thing there will be lot of classroom distractions .We can even imagine how it will be in a classroom of all diverse students. Even in the best controlled classrooms, distractions will surely

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    Auditory Distraction

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    The purpose of this experiment was to test how auditory distractions, or background noise, affects a person’s reaction time. Believing that if there were people talking in the background, then a person’s reaction time would be slower because they would be more distracted. We tested 30 people, separated into two groups, using a reaction time stick and noise cancelling headphones. The first group had no noise, using the noise cancelling headphones, and the reaction times ranged from 180 to 265. The

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    Is technology a distraction? technology can be a distraction it can be a distraction all the especially if you have a cell phone. We are all distracted by technology all the time. People get distracted from doing other things. however it really depends on who can hanndle having a piece of technology there are people who can be responsible and people who can't. there are a lot of people who can't hanndle having a piece of technology there have been so many car accidents for text driving and why does

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    Visual Distraction and its effects on reaction time in humans Abstract This research project explores the effects and consequences of visual distraction on reaction times in adults. In this study we want to see if participants who are visually distracted have a slower pre-motor time than those who are not visually distracted. This is crucial in situations such as driving as we believe there are many accidents that arise from distractions. In order to address the question, we will collect sufficient

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    The Distraction of Technology While Technology gives us many opportunities, it is a major distraction because it causes distractions in the classroom, dangers while driving, and weakens in person relationships. So with all the opportunities' technology gives us, why are we so distracted? How does it affect students' learning ability? What type of threat to our safety does it pose while driving? How does it affect our in person relationships? Technology distracts students from their education because

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    for the SATs hoping for that perfect 1600. However, many of these students often get thrown off task by tweets, snaps, and other distractions; these small temptations may not seem like much in the moment, but we realize the true effects of them after we earn a score much lower than anticipated. Even though we may realize the negative impacts of falling for distractions, we cannot resist the gravitational pull of our smartphone devices. In Homer’s epic entitled The Odyssey, Odysseus and his shipmates

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    Article 1: Strayer and Jonston, 2001. Driven to Distraction. 1. The first hypothesis is, “the peripheral-interference, hypothesis, tacitly endorsed by the majority of legislative initiatives on the topic, attributes any interference from cell phones to peripheral factors such as holding the phone conversing.” This hypothesis states that if any interference occurs while driving and using a cell phone it is from the driver’s physical actions, such as holding a phone or taking their eyes off the road

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    struggle for everyone. The distractions from others, surroundings, or even oneself can affect how creative your paper is. Mary Oliver the writer of “Of Power and Time” has proven to people the true distractions from writing. The distractions pop up from thoughts, other people, or surroundings. The thoughts that pop up happen to everyone not even just when writing a paper. Different thoughts pop up all the time and it seems almost impossible to keep a clear mind. Distractions from other people is also

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    Today, the web grants the people easy accessibility to unprecedented amounts of knowledge. However, a growing body of scientific proof suggests that the web, with its constant distractions and interruptions, is additionally turning society into scattered and superficial thinkers.The Roman thinker Seneca could have place it best 2,000 years ago: "To be all over is to be obscurity" (Carr, 2010). The picture rising from the article is deeply heavy, at least any person who values the depth, instead

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     Cognitive Distraction These tasks require mind-off-the-road. Researcher Green found out that the tasks which are not visually demanding like day dreaming or listening to a long speech in phone could increase the probability of crashes. Two different conditions and a control condition were compared with 24 participants actively participating in it [5]. Fig.2.1: Experimental results for cognitive distraction [5] III. Factors affecting Driver performance and Accident Hazard Many

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