Split attention effect

Paying attention for the past three days has changed my opinion on how I should live and view my life. Although technology in society is beneficial for many, new studies are showing that technology may be affecting us negatively too. Often times we lose essential part of our days because we become so immersed in our phones and gadgets. Paying attention has showed me that I am forgetting to slow down and take a breath in my busy days at Cal Poly. Often times I need the listen to my surroundings…

experiential method, verbal contents are only used as indicators of an ongoing experiential activity. The concern is not with the verbal narrative, but with the evidence of an experiential behavior (focusing). In other words, verbalization has a therapeutic effect only when it occurs as a description of experiencing. The experiencing scale which was created by Gendlin, and, Tomlinson in1967 is the instrument used to measure the presence of inward reference. Inward reference is the description…

target letters and set two conditions. In condition one, distractors are always letters. In condition two, distractors are always digits (Avital-Cohen & Tsal, 2016). They also created a critical distractor which they used to measure the interference effect for each condition. The critical distractors are ambiguous characters, meaning they can be read as digits or letters. For this experiment they used S-5 and…

unable to perform as well as the other child. One activity that really caught my attention was a dancing activity. After lunch, the teacher projected some music and…

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…

teaching with no sort of interaction the student would zone out and find the learning the material boring. Especially when working in an elementary school, some students have short attention span so they are going to lose focus. If the subject, they are learning sounds uninteresting kids would not want to pay attention or listen. Everyone must attend school until the age of eighteen. That is a lot of years and for students to want to look forward to all those years, teachers need to help by…

In the current world of art, it seems that inspiration and imitation are separated by only a thin line. Someone could present what they made based off inspiration, but critics can accuse it to be merely a copy of someone’s else work. These differences in perceptive seems to be a reoccurring argument that lasted the centuries. One of the most famous work that demonstrate this conflict is Plato’s Ion. This written dialogue between Greek philosopher Socrates and professional rhapsode Ion dives into…

In her essay, Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus, Alina Tugend discusses many effects of multitasking. We think that multitasking is a way to keep us more efficient, but in reality it may be doing just the opposite. Tugend says that,”psychologists, neuroscientists, and others are finding that it [multitasking] can put us under a great deal of stress and actually make us less efficient. It turns out that most of the time when we think we’re multitasking, we actually aren’t. Our brains are…

Mindfulness requires one to pay attention in a particular way, deliberately and non-judgmentally, to the present moment. Mindfulness has been applied to many different conditions such as, stress reduction, chronic pain, cancer, parenting, childbirth and anxiety, etc. While this technique is useful for many conditions the primary intention of applying mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treatment is to teach clients mindfulness-based approaches for depression. Depression is considered to be a…

increased control one has over other’s perception of them, whereas the latter believes that the new technology will strain relationships, and decrease connectivity on a deeper level with greater breadth. This self study evaluates the psychological side effects of technology and social media, their purpose, and impact on my relationships. The study began January 23, 2017 at 1:00…