PSYC 40445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Overhead Projector, Lumosity, Speech Shadowing
3 Jan 2019
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Really hard to improve attention if not impossible. You can choose to direct your attention based on your interests, goals and. Someone is coming into the classroom to fix the overhead projector. You shift your focus from the teacher to the door because you are expecting. Your neighbor sitting next to you is annoying, shifting your focus from them to the. You can only attend to so much at one given time. As you try to juggle more, performance suffers. Lumosity: game that claims it can improve your attention span". Attention is flexible teacher and back to them: attention can be voluntarily controlled expectations someone/something. Pre-attentive processing: before you select/focus on information, processing that is happening before you make the conscious decision to focus on something. Saying the number of things really quickly without thinking. If you see a picture with two kittens, you can say two" without even thinking, it"s automatic.
