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Your Friend Says That She Can Drive and Text on Her

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Your friend says that she can drive and text on her cell phone at the same time because she has a lot of practice doing both things.Use your knowledge of attention to convince her (using the appropriate psychological terms and evidence)that she should not text and drive at the same time.


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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

A noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of certain mental health conditions.

Virtual Lesions

A technique used in brain research involving temporary disruption of brain activity in a particular area to study its functions.

Wernicke's Area

An area in the brain responsible for understanding language, situated in the cortex of the leading temporal lobe.

Temporal Lobe

A region of the brain responsible for processing auditory information and is also involved in the encoding of memory.

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