Chapter 4COGNITIVE ASPECTS
4.1 Introduction
Imagine that it is getting late in the evening and you are sitting in front of your laptop. You have a report to complete by tomorrow morning, but you are not getting very far with it. You begin to panic and start biting your nails. You see two text messages flash up on your smartphone. You instantly abandon your report and cradle your smartphone to read them. One is from your mother, and the other is from your friend asking if you want to go out for a drink. You reply immediately to both of them. Before you know it, you're back on Facebook to see whether any of your friends have posted anything about the party you wanted to go to but had to say no. Your phone rings, and you see that it's your dad calling. You answer it, and he asks if you have been watching the football game. You say that you are too busy working toward a deadline, and he tells you that your team has just scored. You chat with him ...