Attention restoration theory

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…

teacher at Acacia Elementary School, explained that for about an hour and a half, your brain is active, but at about 2 hours, you stop paying attention well enough. Kids should have break, other than recess and lunch, and All the Arts is long enough. Unfortunately, it seems so short to everyone because it's so…

in Chapter 3 of the text, the four stages of the perceptual process are attention and selection, organization, interpretation, and retrieval. In the first stage of the perceptual process, attention and selection, individuals resolve to selective screening in order to filter a high volume of information. Selective screening is two-fold: one is channeled through controlled screening in which an individual chooses to pay attention to certain information and ignore the rest; and the second screening…

blindness for dynamic events” discusses the theory of inattentional blindness. At its simplest level, inattentional blindness means that we do not always see what is in front of our eyes. Accordingly, experiments were set since the 1970’s to prove this hypothesis. Scientists agree on the fact that perception is the ability to consciously identify the things we see and the changes that occur around us, but according to the authors of the article, the theory that favors our ability to see every…

concentration shields against distraction. The first reason is “undesired processing of the background is reduced”, and this means that if someone is engaged in an activity that causes for a high level of concentration it is unlikely that they will pay attention to things surrounding them. For example, if during a basketball game the score is tied and a player is fouled and sent to the free throw line, the pressure of the game is on the player shooting free throws, so he/she has a high…