PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Flexibility, Mirror Neuron, Basal Ganglia
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A goal is anything that you want to accomplish. It is different from a wish because you are trying to takes steps in order to obtain the goal: you can have goals that are immediate. Example: i need to eat something for lunch because i"m hungry. You can have a goal that is long term. What goal led a professor to have the goal that they have today. In order to communicate an effective lecture, a prof needs to keep ideas in their mind to communicate to their students effectively. Working memory is a construct for being able to do this. In attention we have a ton of information arriving at our senses and we have to manage irrelevant information or distractions so that we can obtain a goal. Your professor needs to keep distractions about their personal life behind, so that they can focus on delivering a lecture: we need to control our behavior at times.
