Attention management

Impact of Technology and Social Media on Psychological Wellbeing and Relationships The impact of social media and technology has changed traditional methods of communication and permeates the vast users’ everyday life. Change incites two reactions: those in favor of and those opposed. Arguments for the former include transcending geographic differences, and increased control one has over other’s perception of them, whereas the latter believes that the new technology will strain…

Teaching Plan The goal of this teaching plan was to build upon prior knowledge of the learner, administer a pretest to determine what learners already know and if results change; implement oral health teaching regarding the effects of oral health on the body, the psychosocial impact, how to improve oral health, and VT Medicaid; and then evaluate whether it was effective using the same five-question survey. The psychosocial impact of poor oral health was worth including because it has been…

I procrastinate, I have a short attention span, and I don’t set goals. Over time, these habits have made my grades appear lower than what an “Exceptional Student” would get. I would say I am intelligent, because if I care for the work I will get it done, and I will complete it with flying…

It is well known that when socializing it is expected of you to look straight ahead and pay attention to the person with eye contact. This norm is used to control people when they are talking to people, as a way of ensuring the said person is paying attention to the conversation. This week when I go to class or when anyone is talking to me I will do everything normally, except look at the person speaking. I will look up at the ceiling or some other fixed point in the room, focusing on it and not…

It is amazing how much effort actually goes into “paying attention”. Until reading this chapter and listening to the classroom lecture on attention controls, I never realized how daunting of a task focusing on the right thing at the right time could be. From getting ready for school in the morning to completing academic tasks throughout the day, there are so many opportunities for a child to become distracted or overloaded with information. Without having the proper attending skills to…

suggested to be prioritized, capturing attention automatically; however, many hypotheses that perceptual attention is limited in its capacity, and strict endogenous allocation of cognitive resources occur in a focused attentional state (source, year). In a visual search task, this can be stimulated by the use of an informative central cue that endogenously directs attention to a localised spot, bringing observer out of a diffused state, thus the focused attention can endogenously priorities…

Out of all difficult situations I personally encountered, nothing ever reached the insanity of my room's bedbug infestation in my junior year. Unfortunately, my family could not afford a bed bug exterminator. With a single mother who makes less than $30,000 a year and a brother in college, hiring an exterminator was a choice we could not afford. Consequently, our circumstances left us with one remaining option: annihilating the nightmares themselves. Ultimately, with the bedbugs originating in…

pertaining to perceptual load and early or late selective attention theories. Better understanding whether or not selective attention can be sustained during a perceptual task, even when there is a distractor, provides valuable insight into how humans function on a day-to-day basis. Prior research showed that when a person was doing a task that involved high perceptual effort they were better able to focus, thus validating early selective attention (Lavie, 2005). Moreover, tasks that were viewed…

If you think boredom is important, well you might want to think twice. Boredom is in our everyday life and people think it’s a good thing, but it really isn't. First of all you can get hurt and in trouble, boredom can be agony, and boredom is more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs. So, is boredom important after all? Boredom isn't a nice feeling, so we have an urge to eradicate it and cope with it in a counterproductive way. This is what causes people to make bad choices such as alcohol and…

In my case it is more common with my oven. In-fact there has been many times that I went to class and wondered if I shut off my oven. This method was founded by Schneider and Shiffrin and done so with the process of dividing the attention of participants to deal with all of the target and test items simultaneously (Controlled and Automatic Processing, n.d.). This process was very worrisome and there was not much to overcome. Consequently, I had to turn around and check my oven to…