APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Biceps, Too Short, Psychological Refractory Period
15 Dec 2016
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Lifeguarding on a busy beach (noise/calls for help, watching/attending body movements of ppl swimming) Running a 5k (not bumping into people, Mile markers, external conditions (i. e. weather, environment), breathing) Playing a soccer game (attending to where the other team members are to pass ; What"s the score, how much time is left) Learning to knit a scarf (paying attention to the instructions given to you) A resource that is available and that can be used for various purposes . **attention breaks down at the response programming stage. Not being able to do two tasks at once (since you already have a max. attention capacity of 100%), therefore one task suffers. It is also possible that both tasks can show diminishing results. E. g. tapping fingers at a specific beat while doing simple multiplication problems. Each pool has limited resources, meaning they are only able to be used to complete a task for a certain amount of efficiency and/or time.
