Attention

Meditation is the best way to relax and de-stress. It can also improve the focus and concentration, which are really essential to accomplish the tasks at hand. In today’s age, distractions are in plenty and these can keep us away from completing the immediate work. Meditating regularly can improve our creativity and reduce the stress, which can lead to better results. How to Meditate? For people, who are used to doing Multitasking, to sit at one place quietly, can seem to be quite daunting.…

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…

I really like the attention grabber ideas explained in the video. Although it is not my style to use noise to get my students attention I would like to take the risk and see how fun these would be to use. My approach to attention grabbers are typically visuals such as turning the lights off for a brief moment or I usually use my silence and eye contact until everyone is "ready". I teach them a routine on the first day of school that we need to respect each other when someone is speaking to have…

reminded not to use of profanity, coaxed into not sleeping, and the ultimate goal to be derived at is in class assignment completion. In addition to these interventions taking place, the counselor and teachers, will offer up a substantial amount of attention to this student as often as possible, by praising the student for his effort in completing task that yield positive results. According to Sprick, Borgmeier, and Nolet (2002), instructors should make an effort to give problem students three…

Eugene T. Gendlin born in1926 in Vienna. His family emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazis when he was a child. During the 1950s, He studied under Carl Rogers, the founder of client-centered therapy. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he became an Associate Professor. Gendlin believes the discovery of meaning is not in the conscious, or, the unconscious as suggested by Freud, not even the congruence between feeling, concept, and expression…

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…

types of stimuli. Dichotic listening is a process meant to help us understand how the brain is divided into hemispheres and how those hemispheres differ in functionality. On a psychological level, it is also designed to help us understand selective attention to auditory stimuli. During a dichotic listening task, the participant wears a listening device (usually a set of headphones) and has a different auditory stimuli play in each ear, usually simultaneously. The stimuli played can range from…

When considering all of the chapters, I decided to choose chapter fourteen, Acting, with hopes of learning more about the acting process. I have never been in a theatrical production so I was very interested in learning about the process, especially the actors because they possess a lot of talent. This chapter discusses concentration, scene study, and memorization and line reading, which were three things that really stood out to me as topics that I wanted to know more about. This chapter is all…

In the short story Orientation by Daniel Orozco, a new employee is introduced to his office and the workspace which he is going to working in. However, while the story is told from the perspective of the main character, throughout the story there is almost no focus on the main character, but instead on the people who he will be working around and interacting with in the future with in the office. The narrative in this story is from the person who is giving the new employee a tour of the office,…

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…