Attention seeking

As a mature aged student studying via distance education, it can sometimes be difficult to self-manage and find a healthy balance between life, work and study. Additionally, information overload can prove overwhelming, hindering proper memory retention, after having been out of the learning environment for numerous years. Discovering what strategies work best is an individual process of trial, error and re-evaluation. The time management and learning strategies I will explore to counteract these…

A professor from Stanford University, Clifford Nass, stated, "Kids have to learn about emotion, and the way they do that, really, is by paying attention to other people. They have to really look them in the eye." Most kids these days don't even communicate face-to-face. Texting has become the main form of communication, so when kids get home, how can they look at each other in the eye if they just text? Another study has shown that children's social skills are affected negatively when they…

Kevin gleefully describes how people watch “people like him” for entertainment, which is in fact very much true and shows how Kevin feeds on the attention and indicative of the fact that Shriver crafted him to manipulate not only his family but also all of America. Her title choice seems to be an ironic innuendo towards Kevin’s egomaniac desire for attention. Almost like a last laugh, “yes the title is named for you, but we will not talk about…

used, if a child misbehaves, by taking away three to five minutes of recess. This way, the child learns they did something wrong, has time to think about what they have done, but still have the opportunity to release their energy so they can pay attention. This will also minimize reoccurrences of misbehavior because the child will not feel the urge to act out to release…

This kid was sitting there the whole class trying to figure out this puzzle without moving an inch. This action showed that this kid had a very strong attention span to try and solve the puzzle by himself. Usually kids loose attention on this quite fast unless it is something that really want to pay attention to. It was rare to see a kid stay in one place the entire class while most of the kids were moving around changing activities several times. Secondly, trying to solve the…

chronic disorder that gives someone trouble with paying attention and concentrating. “...affects millions of children and often persists into childhood”(1). It also makes a person hyper. ADHD will give a person symptoms/sign in behavioral, cognitive, and their mood. Behavioral problems such as: hyperactivity, aggression, repetition, and continuous movement. Cognitive problems such as: forgetting easily, not being able to focus, and a short attention span. They get mood changes which can also…

are people who are attention deficient, however, someone who is…

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a psychological disorder characterized by levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity above age-appropriate norms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Up to 11% of children in the United States have at some point been diagnosed with ADHD, about two thirds of whom have taken medication to treat their ADHD (Visser et al., 2014). ADHD has significant negative effects on students in the classroom, where students with ADHD commonly…

class or ride the subway to work. Technology is becoming more and more of a predominant factor in our every day lives. Think about it. We use technology everywhere, whether it be in school, at work, at home, or even in the car. In Richard Restak’s Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era and Bill Wasik’s My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project we learn that although technology can have some positive effects, it is also turning us into machines. According to a new study, children born today…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects approximately 9.5% of children and 4% of adults in the United States. People with the disorder tend to have trouble keeping their attention focused on one thing and have a tendency to be very active and not be able to sit still. The modern method for diagnosing and treating ADHD is considered doubtful by some, in most cases the patient will go see a psychologist who will run the patient through a variety of…