Split attention effect

A Split Attention Effect in Multimedia Learning: Evidence for Dual Processing Systems in Working Memory, written by Robert E. Mayer and Roxana Moreno, discusses a study that tested students’ ability to successfully and effectively process information from two different stimuli at once. Mayer and Moreno found that students were able to perform better on recall tests when presented with an auditory list of instructions rather than a visual one. The purpose of the study, according to Mayer and Moreno, was to “...contribute to multimedia learning theory by testing a dual-processing theory of working memory” (Mayer & Moreno, 1998). They tested this through two separate experiments. In the first experiment, Mayer and Moreno hypothesized that the…

mutual. But with my luck, things took a turn for the worst. I was in so deep that I didn’t care about my own feelings. I convinced myself that love wasn’t about happiness, that it was about giving up yourself to someone else. People told me that love is to put someone else’s happiness before your own, but I took that a little too seriously. I tore out my happiness and handed it to them on a shining, silver platter. I gave them all that I could. I was hollow. I was empty. But after that, they…

choose not to. Others believe that children really do not know any better. With the belief that texting does not effect children’s grammar, one must wonder if this is true. Texting has recently come of age. It emphasizes the generation gap between adults and pre-teens. Since adults have learned to text in their later stages of life, they are less prone to grammatical errors. Texting has a certain format,…

The surgery of split-brain has led to different conclusions as to how many minds there are in one body. There is a total of five different hypotheses that are popular with the philosophers about the split-brain outcome, but I will only be mentioning three of them. One of the main hypotheses is that of Tim Bayne’s notion of one mind-one body in split-brain patients. Another is that of two minds-one body supported by Roland Puccetti and Roger Sperry. And last is that it is indeterminate as to…

For this rotation I taught the Real Care Baby lesson. IN this lesson the students watched a visual video that gave them an overview of what the Real Care Baby is all about. Then they got pulled out in groups to complete the “one Minute” baby challenge. This challenge required the students to stop the baby from crying in one minute. This required following directions, collaboration, completion of the challenge, and critical thinking skills. After this the students had the chance to read more…

when they were shown the lights on the left hemisphere the patients were unable to unable to explain what they saw. This proves that while both hemispheres saw the lights, only the right side allowed the patients to verbally explain what they had seen. This study also shows that the left hemisphere is unable to let us describe or even say what exactly we see. In reverse, during the touch tests, it was found that patients holding a specific object in their right hand, which is monitored by the…

The corpus callosum is an area of the brain that connects the left and right hemispheres in order allow communication throughout different sections of a brain. This acts as the main communication pathway in order to coordinate different sections of the brain to perform various tasks. Proper development of this portion of the brain is vital to ensure that no major abnormalities may cause possible issues in longterm development. If it fails to develop by either not being able to grow properly or…

First, Brody highlights some effects of environmental degradation such as the difference in salt content in soil and drought. For example, the habitats of plants have changed so much that it delays their natural rate of growth (“Fears, Not Facts …”). However, she further describes that such conditions play no effect in G.M.O. crops because they contain devised characteristics of tolerance that ensure them to have a higher probability of long life and, thus, a better chance in a large production…

The Effects of Loss Tupac Shakur once said, “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive...” This quote states, that the things one may lose in life can cause great affect on the emotional and mental well-being of a person. How loss affects a character can be seen in both film and in books. The film, Shenandoah, which takes place in 1965 in America during the Civil War, reflects upon the Anderson family who tries their best to avoid the…

been blamed for causing some of the worst problems based on various fields such as social, political and economic effects that are proving difficult to control (Nelson, 2003). Some key factors that are expected to change due to environmental stress include rise in water level and climate change that will prove difficult to control. Water requirements are expected to change tremendously and push to a percentage of about forty percent. Food is one of the most critical aspects that should be…