Attention To Detail

teaching with no sort of interaction the student would zone out and find the learning the material boring. Especially when working in an elementary school, some students have short attention span so they are going to lose focus. If the subject, they are learning sounds uninteresting kids would not want to pay attention or listen. Everyone must attend school until the age of eighteen. That is a lot of years and for students to want to look forward to all those years, teachers need to help by…

Russel he does not lose interest in it. Research from the American Academy of Pediatrics made a policy that kids that watch TV under the age of 2 years old was due to the documented negative effects that watching TV can have on physical health, attention span, and language delays. From this article it said that children that watched Television that were under the age of two years old had no benefits from watching Television for the cognitive and language…

In the current world of art, it seems that inspiration and imitation are separated by only a thin line. Someone could present what they made based off inspiration, but critics can accuse it to be merely a copy of someone’s else work. These differences in perceptive seems to be a reoccurring argument that lasted the centuries. One of the most famous work that demonstrate this conflict is Plato’s Ion. This written dialogue between Greek philosopher Socrates and professional rhapsode Ion dives into…

The study of working memory has been vast and varied in the field of psychology. Just the aspect of its capacity has had many experiments detailed in several publications. One of many questions asked is whether one can train working memory capacity(wmc) in order to increase it. If we can increase wmc, what other effects would that training have on other facets of the human mind? The first two questions are tackled in both Jaeggi (2008), which attempted to show the positive effects of wmc…

In her essay, Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus, Alina Tugend discusses many effects of multitasking. We think that multitasking is a way to keep us more efficient, but in reality it may be doing just the opposite. Tugend says that,”psychologists, neuroscientists, and others are finding that it [multitasking] can put us under a great deal of stress and actually make us less efficient. It turns out that most of the time when we think we’re multitasking, we actually aren’t. Our brains are…

Mindfulness requires one to pay attention in a particular way, deliberately and non-judgmentally, to the present moment. Mindfulness has been applied to many different conditions such as, stress reduction, chronic pain, cancer, parenting, childbirth and anxiety, etc. While this technique is useful for many conditions the primary intention of applying mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treatment is to teach clients mindfulness-based approaches for depression. Depression is considered to be a…

Impact of Technology and Social Media on Psychological Wellbeing and Relationships The impact of social media and technology has changed traditional methods of communication and permeates the vast users’ everyday life. Change incites two reactions: those in favor of and those opposed. Arguments for the former include transcending geographic differences, and increased control one has over other’s perception of them, whereas the latter believes that the new technology will strain…

Teaching Plan The goal of this teaching plan was to build upon prior knowledge of the learner, administer a pretest to determine what learners already know and if results change; implement oral health teaching regarding the effects of oral health on the body, the psychosocial impact, how to improve oral health, and VT Medicaid; and then evaluate whether it was effective using the same five-question survey. The psychosocial impact of poor oral health was worth including because it has been…

I procrastinate, I have a short attention span, and I don’t set goals. Over time, these habits have made my grades appear lower than what an “Exceptional Student” would get. I would say I am intelligent, because if I care for the work I will get it done, and I will complete it with flying…

It is well known that when socializing it is expected of you to look straight ahead and pay attention to the person with eye contact. This norm is used to control people when they are talking to people, as a way of ensuring the said person is paying attention to the conversation. This week when I go to class or when anyone is talking to me I will do everything normally, except look at the person speaking. I will look up at the ceiling or some other fixed point in the room, focusing on it and not…