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    cognition, baking relies on knowledge obtained from thinking, understanding, remembering, feeling and perceiving, to perform this activity successfully the Memory systems play a huge role. Working memory is important because it allows you to focus your attention and temporarily store relevant information needed to perform the activity such as reading comprehension which is necessary for following the multistep directions of the recipes. The visual-spatial working memory helps us visualize…

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    Motivation For Writing

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    Personally, reading is not a task that is prominent in my life. This summer, however, I was able to read two books, Room and Out of My Mind, because I, as previously stated, spent a large portion of my summer at a camp in which the usage of cell phones was prohibited. Through this experience, I determined that although I do enjoy sitting down and getting enveloped by the plot and characters of a book, I can never find time to do so. Still, those few times that I have been able to experience a…

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    continue to study and discover how it works. J Ripley Stroop developed a test called the Stroop effect to help measure how well a person’s selective attention works and brain processing speeds (Chudler, 2015). This test is used in screening people for dementia, schizophrenia, brain damage, stroke, and ADHD and helps determine aspects of attention and focus (Chudler, 2015). Humans are not equal in cognitive abilities thus any one test is not sufficient in determining human brainpower (Diamant,…

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    Question Change blindness is defined by Matlin as the failure to detect a change in an object or a scene and inattentional blindness is the failure to notice an unexpected and completely visible stimuli while focusing attention on other aspects in a scene (Matlin, 48). Simons and Chabris address the role similarity has between the unexpected and attended events with regard to detection (1999). Simons and Chabris are also looking at the frequency of strange or unusual instances being detected…

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    Background: Selective and exaggerated attention towards threat, termed attention bias (AB), has been identified as a core behavioral and neurocognitive mechanism in anxiety (Bar-Haim et al., 2010). AB is commonly quantified through the dot probe (DP) paradigm in which neutral and threatening faces compete for attention (Mathews & MacLeod, 2002). Another commonly-used measure of AB is the Posner spatial cueing paradigm in which neutral and threatening words serve as valid and invalid cues (Posner…

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    observe attention. Whether I am observing myself slowly lose my ability to focus on my instructors or observing a fellow student staring blankly into space while the instruction continues to give their lecture. While it would be nice to be able to give 100% of my attention to my instructors’ lectures, it is impossible to do so because attention is limited in both time and capacity. There is also an observable difference in students that engage in selective attention and divided attention.…

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    The Dual Task Experiment

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    2001).The conclusion to this experiment said that there was a slower reaction time to traffic signals while on their phone. Their data concluded that it was consistent with an attention biased interpretation in which the disruptive effects of cell phone conversations on driving are due primarily to the diversion of attention from, driving to the phone conversation…

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    Multi-tasking and Observation demonstrated the concept that attention is limited. After observing a strange, it was clear that people could not focus their attentions on more than one tasks at a time. In our lecture the concepts the Capacity Theory and the Dual Task was discussed about. The Capacity Theory is the idea that cognitive resources are divided amongst the task an individual pays attention to. In other words, our brain has limited attention to what we can focus to. This theory…

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    Stroop Effect Lab Report

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    One’s Innate Tendency to Read Words Saipriya Sagiraju University of Massachusetts Amherst Abstract Directed attention is a mechanism used by humans every day to manage their thoughts by inhibiting a stimuli in order to say or do something else; this tendency is also known as the Stroop effect. To test the effects of the Stroop task we conducted an experiment to examine if words on silhouettes have an effect on the reaction time of verbalizing the names of the animals on a silhouette sheet. We…

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    A.) Selective Perception/pg.335: seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others. Selective perception is when someone can see certain aspects of something but remain blind to others, whether that blindness is intentional or accidental is unknown. Selective perception become extremely apparent in the film about the asbestos disaster in Libby, Montana. The owner of the W. R. Grace display a huge case of selective perception in the court files showing him being…

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