Attention seeking

Orienting is the gateway to attention and is defined as the aligning of attention with a source of sensory signal. Covert orienting is the shifting of attention without eye or head movement. It enhances performances by detecting the targets faster and more accurately. Posner’s location cueing paradigm has been used to study this phenomenon scientifically and it has become one of the most important topics of research in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and cognitive…

I would rather read to myself, or volunteer myself to read. When people read out loud it distracts me and I don 't pay attention. Just like reading writing has never been my cup of tea either, and still this day it isn’t. I still find myself using inventive spelling hoping that the teacher knows what I am trying to say. I also always miss place punctuations, myself and commas…

Bored Out of My Mind, Body and Spirit “Boredom Comes From a Boring Mind” (Metallica) In 1975, “don’t leave home without it” referred to your American Express credit card. In 2014, it has taken on a whole new meaning, personal electronics. Cell phones, laptops, tablets, GPS, and gaming devices, our electronic tethers keep us connected, like the Star Trek Borg, we are all a part the collective. Our lives have become bound together by an entanglement of electronics. The very items intended to…

not worked for would make children accept themselves even when they do not work hard or put forth their best effort. Because of this false self-esteem can be linked to boredom in the classroom or in an activity due to confidence, children getting attention for things that they do not deserve, and becoming…

For as long as I can recall I have enjoyed the ability to observe society and those that live within it, henceforth, recently in the past weeks I have enjoyed spending time with a few close acquaintances from going to a public restaurant to enjoying a motion picture flick. In all these activities I was able to not only observe the public but the environment around us and found some interesting aspect that stood out to me. Observing while spending time socialize is anything from easy as I felt…

The effect you’ve had on my cognitive growth has been a lot both for the good, and the bad. You taught me everything, you both did. Everyone thought I was going to fall behind, but we showed them and I was doing more than most babies my age except for the walking part. You guys made me so smart I almost failed out of kindergarten. I never had to study in high school either so I had to accommodate my schema for learning new things in college, which I assimilate with my college courses now, and…

history of encountering some of the test predators in their native habitats. This finding supports the claim that in threat sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis, the prey undergoes behavioural modifications in a manner that attracts very little attention to them. Thus it can be said that the prey is sensitized to the predator as a result of an encounter. The same concept can be applied to the predator as well in instances such as biological pest control when the predator is expected to kill…

threw any sense of integrity out the window. During that year, any thought of doing the right thing set aside my sense of greed, wrath, and even defiance. I had stolen countless items, started and ended many fights, and bullied other students for attention. In that time period, I had gotten suspended so much It felt like I spent more time there than in class. Because of my unacceptable behavior, I was close to becoming expelled if it was not for the administrative staff of my school. My…

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,…