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A 5 page paper that defines and discusses cognitive failure and some conditions that can lead to these experiences. Both Norman's and Reason's schema models are briefly described. The paper comments on action slips and absent-mindedness. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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result in safety hazards (Wallace and Chen, 2005). A cognitive failure is described as a cognitive error that happens when a person is doing something that they do successfully most
of the time (Wallace and Chen, 2005; Wallace, Kass and Stanny, 2002). Few people have not uttered the phrase, it slipped my mind. We say that when we forget to
do something we have said we would do or when we leave a step out of a sequence we generally complete. Initially, cognitive failure was thought to be a trait
in ones personality (Wallace, Kass and Stanny, 2002). This notion most likely emerged from Freuds discussions of verbal slips, which he proposed reflected what we were really feeling. Wallace
and Chen (2005) report that the causes of cognitive failure is due to attention, memory and motor function. Attention is related to "failures in perception," memory lapses are related to
the person being unable to retrieve certain information; and motor function refers to action, either an unintended action or an action slip (Wallace and Chen, 2005, p. 615). An example
of an action slip is throwing away the new pen and keeping the old one (Wallace, Kass and Stanny, 2002). A common example is forgetting to finish a task when
one is interrupted in the middle of it. Wallace and Chen (2005) report that cognitive failure has often been related to issues like worry, boredom, trying to do too much
at the same time, social anxiety, among other factors. Often, we refer to people with cognitive failures as being absent-minded. Wallace, Kass and Stanny (2002) report that these cognitive failures
can lead to absent-minded shoplifting, vehicular accidents and numerous other hazardous conditions. Norman (1981) categorized action slips, which he described as "the performance of an action that was
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