Attention management

Meditation is the best way to relax and de-stress. It can also improve the focus and concentration, which are really essential to accomplish the tasks at hand. In today’s age, distractions are in plenty and these can keep us away from completing the immediate work. Meditating regularly can improve our creativity and reduce the stress, which can lead to better results. How to Meditate? For people, who are used to doing Multitasking, to sit at one place quietly, can seem to be quite daunting.…

Paying attention for the past three days has changed my opinion on how I should live and view my life. Although technology in society is beneficial for many, new studies are showing that technology may be affecting us negatively too. Often times we lose essential part of our days because we become so immersed in our phones and gadgets. Paying attention has showed me that I am forgetting to slow down and take a breath in my busy days at Cal Poly. Often times I need the listen to my surroundings…

Eugene T. Gendlin born in1926 in Vienna. His family emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazis when he was a child. During the 1950s, He studied under Carl Rogers, the founder of client-centered therapy. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he became an Associate Professor. Gendlin believes the discovery of meaning is not in the conscious, or, the unconscious as suggested by Freud, not even the congruence between feeling, concept, and expression…

How well is our brain able to focus and not let distractors get in the way? Through results of flanker tasks, it seems that our brain is not that good with ignoring distractors. This leads to a debate on whether top down processes are used in both targets and interfering distractors in flanker tasks or if bottom up processes are used. In a research article, titled “Top-Down Processes Override Bottom-up Interference in the Flanker Task” by Rotem Avital-Cohen and Yehoshua Tsal, it is clear that…

unable to perform as well as the other child. One activity that really caught my attention was a dancing activity. After lunch, the teacher projected some music and…

teaching with no sort of interaction the student would zone out and find the learning the material boring. Especially when working in an elementary school, some students have short attention span so they are going to lose focus. If the subject, they are learning sounds uninteresting kids would not want to pay attention or listen. Everyone must attend school until the age of eighteen. That is a lot of years and for students to want to look forward to all those years, teachers need to help by…

Russel he does not lose interest in it. Research from the American Academy of Pediatrics made a policy that kids that watch TV under the age of 2 years old was due to the documented negative effects that watching TV can have on physical health, attention span, and language delays. From this article it said that children that watched Television that were under the age of two years old had no benefits from watching Television for the cognitive and language…

In the current world of art, it seems that inspiration and imitation are separated by only a thin line. Someone could present what they made based off inspiration, but critics can accuse it to be merely a copy of someone’s else work. These differences in perceptive seems to be a reoccurring argument that lasted the centuries. One of the most famous work that demonstrate this conflict is Plato’s Ion. This written dialogue between Greek philosopher Socrates and professional rhapsode Ion dives into…

The study of working memory has been vast and varied in the field of psychology. Just the aspect of its capacity has had many experiments detailed in several publications. One of many questions asked is whether one can train working memory capacity(wmc) in order to increase it. If we can increase wmc, what other effects would that training have on other facets of the human mind? The first two questions are tackled in both Jaeggi (2008), which attempted to show the positive effects of wmc…

Mindfulness requires one to pay attention in a particular way, deliberately and non-judgmentally, to the present moment. Mindfulness has been applied to many different conditions such as, stress reduction, chronic pain, cancer, parenting, childbirth and anxiety, etc. While this technique is useful for many conditions the primary intention of applying mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treatment is to teach clients mindfulness-based approaches for depression. Depression is considered to be a…