Attention management

Kidshelpphone.ca promotes support for children and teens twenty-hour hours a day, seven days a week. There are two main areas of focus on this website and since there are many aspects to discover I will mainly concentration on teenagers rather than kids. I believe examining topics related to teens for this assignment will be more interesting because the themes are more relevant to my own subject position. As Trisha argues in (*TedTalk), teenagers are less likely to speak about their problems to…

Jurkowitz, and Rothman (2008) studied in their experiments the effect of increasing student interest by what they called extraneous or seductive details. As previously mentioned, multimedia presentations can increase attention, but it is important to note how they increase that attention. In the experiment, the researchers tested groups of participants on their retention of information about how a cold virus infects the human body after either a booklet, PowerPoint presentation, or animation on…

If students have permission to leave for lunch, their minds could take a break. Students’ brains need a break with all the AP and Honors classes that they take today. If students are allowed to take a lunch break, they may find it easier to pay attention in their classes. Off campus lunch breaks would allow students to enjoy themselves during the school day because during their breaks they could hang out with their friends or even take a nap. Giving students a lunch break would also allow…

types of stimuli. Dichotic listening is a process meant to help us understand how the brain is divided into hemispheres and how those hemispheres differ in functionality. On a psychological level, it is also designed to help us understand selective attention to auditory stimuli. During a dichotic listening task, the participant wears a listening device (usually a set of headphones) and has a different auditory stimuli play in each ear, usually simultaneously. The stimuli played can range from…

To summarize, there has been increasing interest regarding false illusions and their relevant mechanisms and the reasons why have been quite apparent through this study. All these mechanisms and processes investigated in this study could provide a mediating tool in order to distinguish truthful memories between the specious ones. The extensive literature on DRM includes studies on some clinical cases such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer dementia, amnesia, affective disorders, anxiety, aging, as well…

In many mystery novels there is a victim and a criminal, but what if the victim was the criminal? In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier is a book about a young man that was in an accident over twenty years ago. Now he is a grown man that has a family. Him and his family are now directly affected by phone calls and threats. The one who is causing all this is a victim that died in the accident and wants revenge for herself not being able to live her life. She doesn't realize that the only…

Spatial Cueing Basic Questions 1. Does visual attention always follow a person’s eye movements? Explain. No, it does not always follow a person’s eye movements because some people are trained to use their peripheral vision rather than their spatial. Also, our visual attention like in the experiment can be focused on the arrow in the middle rather than the red box on the outside. In other words, visual attention can be very selective and not always focus on a person’s eye movements. 2. What is…

The film Bob Roberts is a story about a Pennsylvania senatorial race between the democratic senator, Brickley Paiste, and a folk singer, Bob Roberts. In terms of genre, it is a comedic satire criticizing the problems that the American electoral system has and how exploitable it can be by candidates, such as Bob Roberts. It heavy-handedly tackles the drama and deception that a less favorable candidate can utilize to their advantage and spin the election in their favor. To add to this, the film…

If you wish you had the art of persuasion, then you want to be more credible, influential, and convincing. Persuasion makes wonderful things happen. It open minds, shifts attitudes, finds love, wins friendships, influences people, and makes money. The art of persuasion has been highly prized throughout history. It has been the source of interesting myths because people have long considered eloquence to be magical and as potent as a charm. In Ireland, for instance, legend has it that kissing…

Mingyu had known Psychology wasn’t the easiest major to study, but he came to realize several months into his second year of university that he underestimated the amount of work he would be receiving. Essay after essay he had been completing all throughout autumn, and he grew tired of his routine. Every time Junhui and him obtained a great amount of work, they would always complete (or attempt to) their assignments in Mingyu’s room due to their similar work ethics. However, Mingyu was going…