Attention economy

Multi-tasking and Observation demonstrated the concept that attention is limited. After observing a strange, it was clear that people could not focus their attentions on more than one tasks at a time. In our lecture the concepts the Capacity Theory and the Dual Task was discussed about. The Capacity Theory is the idea that cognitive resources are divided amongst the task an individual pays attention to. In other words, our brain has limited attention to what we can focus to. This theory…

One’s Innate Tendency to Read Words Saipriya Sagiraju University of Massachusetts Amherst Abstract Directed attention is a mechanism used by humans every day to manage their thoughts by inhibiting a stimuli in order to say or do something else; this tendency is also known as the Stroop effect. To test the effects of the Stroop task we conducted an experiment to examine if words on silhouettes have an effect on the reaction time of verbalizing the names of the animals on a silhouette sheet. We…

A.) Selective Perception/pg.335: seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others. Selective perception is when someone can see certain aspects of something but remain blind to others, whether that blindness is intentional or accidental is unknown. Selective perception become extremely apparent in the film about the asbestos disaster in Libby, Montana. The owner of the W. R. Grace display a huge case of selective perception in the court files showing him being…

Orienting is the gateway to attention and is defined as the aligning of attention with a source of sensory signal. Covert orienting is the shifting of attention without eye or head movement. It enhances performances by detecting the targets faster and more accurately. Posner’s location cueing paradigm has been used to study this phenomenon scientifically and it has become one of the most important topics of research in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and cognitive…

I would rather read to myself, or volunteer myself to read. When people read out loud it distracts me and I don 't pay attention. Just like reading writing has never been my cup of tea either, and still this day it isn’t. I still find myself using inventive spelling hoping that the teacher knows what I am trying to say. I also always miss place punctuations, myself and commas…

Bored Out of My Mind, Body and Spirit “Boredom Comes From a Boring Mind” (Metallica) In 1975, “don’t leave home without it” referred to your American Express credit card. In 2014, it has taken on a whole new meaning, personal electronics. Cell phones, laptops, tablets, GPS, and gaming devices, our electronic tethers keep us connected, like the Star Trek Borg, we are all a part the collective. Our lives have become bound together by an entanglement of electronics. The very items intended to…

not worked for would make children accept themselves even when they do not work hard or put forth their best effort. Because of this false self-esteem can be linked to boredom in the classroom or in an activity due to confidence, children getting attention for things that they do not deserve, and becoming…

For as long as I can recall I have enjoyed the ability to observe society and those that live within it, henceforth, recently in the past weeks I have enjoyed spending time with a few close acquaintances from going to a public restaurant to enjoying a motion picture flick. In all these activities I was able to not only observe the public but the environment around us and found some interesting aspect that stood out to me. Observing while spending time socialize is anything from easy as I felt…

The effect you’ve had on my cognitive growth has been a lot both for the good, and the bad. You taught me everything, you both did. Everyone thought I was going to fall behind, but we showed them and I was doing more than most babies my age except for the walking part. You guys made me so smart I almost failed out of kindergarten. I never had to study in high school either so I had to accommodate my schema for learning new things in college, which I assimilate with my college courses now, and…

history of encountering some of the test predators in their native habitats. This finding supports the claim that in threat sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis, the prey undergoes behavioural modifications in a manner that attracts very little attention to them. Thus it can be said that the prey is sensitized to the predator as a result of an encounter. The same concept can be applied to the predator as well in instances such as biological pest control when the predator is expected to kill…