Attention

Many people in the world are affected by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. ADHD is a genetic disorder, that can be passed to other family member’s. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a “brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with the functioning or development (NIH, 2016)”. Many parents and teachers have the children diagnosed because of certain things like inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.…

Primary diagnosis: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Secondary diagnosis: Personality disorders. The claimant was a 15-year-old man. Alleged disability: attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His mother reported that the claimant was constantly getting into trouble; he received special education services, but he was expelled from school because or inappropriate behavior. “He always get put out of school.” He had difficulty…

The researchers in the scientific article, Peer Rejection and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms: Reciprocal Relations Through Ages 4, 6, and 8, investigated to what degree social experiences in early childhood and the development of ADHD are bidirectional. This possible link is extremely important to understand because of the powerful implications that low social competence has on the quality of social interactions and overall social development, including implications such as…

the American Psychiatric Association, educators, as well as parents and caregivers, are able to review certain behaviors found in students. A combination of various behaviors may lead to a potential diagnosis of ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, along with attention deficit disorder, is a neurobehavioral disorder which is characterized by a combination of distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and inattentiveness. Its symptoms may be discerned in early childhood, and…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or better known as ADHD is a very common disease involving a person to be inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive. People that deal with these symptoms does not mean they automatically have ADHD. People that get diagnosed most likely will experience these symptoms more frequently and it will negatively affect their everyday life. People dealing with this disease will generally miss small details, have trouble staying still, or being quiet. About 9% of…

Attention grabber: (Make someone WANT to know what happened.) I will never forget the day when I was on top of my house. Basic Situation: (Who? When? Where? This is usually where you find out about the conflict, or problem.) It happen two months ago. It happen when i was 11 years old on top of my house. This was my first time ever on top of my house. MIDDLE Rising Action #1: First, time I have ever been on top of my house was a real death experience. When I was on top of my house there…

Joseph performance on the attention tasks during this testing exhibited variability. Joseph’s performance on visual attention task was below the threshold of statistical significance; however, it did demonstrate subtle difficulties in the area of detectability, inattention, response speed consistency. He also made slightly more anticipatory errors than others in his age group. There was slight reduction of speed noted during the later blocks. His response speed also showed slight decrease when…

Locus of Attention Recall the last letter of your forename. It 's a straightforward task, however it highlights the distinction between unconscious, conscious, and locus of attention. This term refers to the degree to which a person feels that they control events in their own lives (internal locus of control), or that such events are influenced by outside forces, chance or ‘luck’ (eternal locus of control) [2]. Your locus of attention is important in the design of computer interfaces [3]. An…

Attention getter: How many people took spelling tests in elementary? . I remember fretting over every word and feeling so unintelligent when I received my C grade. Many years later, I still find common mistakes whenever I write quickly. Knowing where my weakness lies and how they can affect my credibility is what drives me check everything from my final papers down to my daily text messages. Our good friend Aristotle taught us all about credibility. Every day in class, was a lesson about…

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…