Dichotic listening

will act as if they do have a hearing loss and will ask for repetition of words in class, have difficultly spelling, reading and understanding verbal cues from their teacher. Yet, children with APD will perform better in areas that do not rely on listening, and they can compete a task without help once they know and understand the directions. For example, a child with ADHD will show signs and symptoms of not being able to listen and difficulty comprehending language but these are not due to APD…

Memory is a process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. It is the total sum of who we are and what we know. It is also absolutely crucial in everything we do and affects how well we do it. A large variety of studies have already been conducted on memory and show that there are different types of memory. In their study, Luo and Craik (2008) looked at the effects of age on memory and found that aging contributes to increasing difficulty to complete complex memory tasks. There’s a…

William James (1890), on attention, “It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought”1. It is the kingfisher picking out the single chosen fish in an ever-flowing stream. Attention is the selective tool we use in order to filter out unnecessary stimulus. Sohlberg and Mateer (1987) describe five levels of attention. In order, these are: Focused attention, is our response to a specific single…

CONCENTRATION This area of discussion is important in sports because, it is possibly the main component to succeed, it can be seen as the key to an athlete’s excellence which makes them elite performers. For them to be the best or successful in competitive situations such as competitions and so on, the individual should have the ability to not react or get distracted. Their best performance will happen when they voluntarily concentrate on cues surrounding them in the environment and manage to…

ATTENUATION MODEL Our sensory systems are continually bombarded by sights, sounds, smells and other signals from the external environment. From moment to moment one possible train is taken to exclusion of many others. Some internal or external events dominate consciousness and others are barely noticed or not noticed at all. Attention refers to selecting certain stimuli from among may and focusing cognitive resources on those selected. Selective attention In real life, hundreds of stimulus…