Attention management

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…

Many have trouble with keeping attention on this making concentration almost impossible to achieve. Whether it is because the textbook is very dull and uninteresting, not comfortable in surroundings, noise, or perhaps being drowsy all these can affect one’s ability to concentrate. There…

whether perception of feelings, thoughts or behaviour is conditional on conscious awareness. A considerable amount of literature support the notion that spatial attention is essential in order to process information (Besner, Risko & Sklair, 2005; McCann, Folk, & Johnston, 1992) In contrast, another major theory argues that spatial attention enhances the processing of information,…

abilities from a traditional deep-attention style to a modern hyper-attention style. She argues that this has challenged our abilities to perform at all educational levels. And after silently observing…

travelling? Self-regulation can be learned and reinforced over time with practice (Bauer & Baumeister, 2011). Cognitive skills are a key aspect of self-regulation exemplified in goal setting, strategic planning, self-evaluation, causal attributions, and attention. Affective skills are another pivotal aspect of self-regulation with the understanding that effective emotional regulation will put someone in a better position to control…

Identity Reflects Significant Traits One of the most common questions that people ask when they meet you for the first time is about your identity. Identity sometimes can be misleading because the personality itself does not necessarily reflect who you are. In fact, identity is more than a name, religion, race, or ethnicity; it is something that tells you who you are and to where you belong. When it comes to identify myself as a Muslim in the middle of a homogeneous group that is entirely…

Athlete’s attention will switch between attentional styles changing with the demands of their sport, although many athletes will have a preferred attentional style that forms part of your personality (Hodge, & McKenzie, 1999). For example dribbling in soccer and scanning for opponents would be the use of broad-external, when reacting to an opponent or passing quickly this would require switching to narrow-external (Hardy, 2006). Selective attention is a key attribute to have within…

Rachael Barnes February 7th, 2016 Dr. Queen Visual Search Lab Introduction Jeremy Wolfe is a psychologist who was particularly interested studying visual attention and visual search. The term “visual search” is used to describe the action of using one’s visual modality to identify an object given to you. Wolfe (2011) posed the question “how you find what you are looking for in a visual world filled with these things that you are not looking for?” (p.1). When it comes to visual search we…