Distraction

1. Distraction: The user of the Google Glass would be distracted by the Google glass which would be a disadvantage to the user. If notifications or calls or weather updates are constantly popping up on the screen and lens of the glasses it would make it difficult for the user to do his job. Even simple things like talking to someone and having a conversation would become difficult if they were suddenly getting ads and emails in the middle of a conversation. The Google Glass could be making like…

them to have to worry about whether there will be food on the table or not. I want to be the best for them not me. If you cannot think of anything, write about what's preventing you from discovering something that matters. Is it Apathy? Fear? Distraction? What is preventing you from caring enough about your life to dream of doing something important?…

Distraction, as defined by North (2011), is an event that causes a lack of attention leading to the inability to concentrate on the task at hand. Attention is closely linked to working memory, as it is believed that maintaining items in working memory are atttentionally demanding, as seen in an experiment by Baddeley (1986) in the impairment in comprehension, learning, and reasoning of participants when handling memory loads (as cited by Fougnie, 2008). However, the effect a distraction has on…

concentrate while studying. Decreasing the amount of distractions while studying can increase productivity and effectiveness, however; the modern American life is full of distractions. The advancing of technology and social networks are leading to an increase in the amount of distractions one person has everyday. Distraction is the diverting of an individual’s attention from a chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. Distractions include things like noise, people talking,…

In his article “In Defense of Distraction”, Sam Anderson does not recommend abandoning our culture of distraction. He has a unique way of viewing the battle between concentration and focus: “Focus is a paradox—it has distraction built into it. The two are symbiotic; they’re the systole and diastole of consciousness.” Distraction is not an epidemic or a fatal flaw, nor is it something to immediately accept and embrace. Focus and distraction balance each other out, and you cannot have one without…

When doing work many people look for a distraction and getting on social media is the perfect one as Hughes states, “It has been suggested that Conscientious individuals are inclined to avoid SNS as they promote procrastination and serve as a distraction” (Hughes 552). There is something new always happening on social media and it is more interesting than doing work. You can end up spending hours…

In the article, the ways in which concentration shields against distraction are examined. It basically states that, the higher the level of concentration the more difficult it is to become distracted. While engaged in activities that call for high levels of concentration, people seldom heed the distractions surrounding. The article also provides two reasons why it is believed that concentration shields against distraction. The first reason is “undesired processing of the background is reduced”,…

safe driving behaviors, such as wearing a seatbelt, than adults (AAP, 2013). Younger drivers, specifically drivers below the age of 20, are especially impacted by mobile phone usage while driving, as they constitute the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashes (NHTS, 2015). In 2012, approximately half of the high school students in the United States admitted to texting while driving, and according to the a study done by the American Academy of Pediatrics, teenage drivers are…

us from being good listeners. There are many obstacles, I am only going to discuss a few. Distractions and Divided Attention Distractions can be both internal and external. They can either be something in your mind, or an outside influence. For example, if you are sitting in class and get a text on your cell phone, you may be tempted to pick up your cell phone and read it. This is an external distraction. You attention would be divided between the class lecture and your cell phone. Let’s say…

Distractions are all around us. Beep. A text message. Bing. An Instagram notification. Although we may not be living in a totalitarian government, in many ways, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has become our world. Although Geroge Orwell’s 1984 is often the dystopian society we have all feared, it is Huxley’s vision that illustrates much of our current reality. Although Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930s, it is hauntingly relevant in today’s world of smartphones and constant distractions.…