Driving Route Observation

The very first theory that came to my mind regarding the driving routes observation was a Broadbent Filter Model Theory. This is one of the models of selective attention, the attention used to focus on incoming stimuli. The information is processed and attended only after it is passed on through a selective filter into a limited-capacity channel. While I was driving, in the case of both normal and altered routes, I have experienced the selective attention emphasized by this theory. In other words, while I was driving my attention was tuned to the relevant stimuli, such as focusing on the passing cars, viewing the road signals, and concentrating on the steering wheel. My attention to this and other similar objects were filtered to a limited capacity channel. I failed to notice the
My brain became alert right after starting the car and driving out and remained alert throughout the normal or altered route of driving. However, the attention that was filtered on my way to campus was much less than the stimuli I was exposed to. The symptoms of my heart rate going up the way it did was due to the fact that I was exposed to the stimuli that affected my physiological functions, heart rate being one of them. For example, the driving and being alert on the road, with oncoming traffic, and making left turns on the way made my heart rate to go up. As opposed to that, if my selective attention would have been to observe the beauty of flowering trees and the splendid environment around me would have in my opinion decreased my heart rate. The result of the selective attention that my brain decided to filter while driving caused my heart rate to elevate. The filtering occurs not only during of course, but at other times throughout our lifespan. Our brain decides which stimuli are important at one point and which are less significant during a specific action or