The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types
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Perception and Attention People will perceive the world not in the same way. For example‚ two people may look at a cloud‚ and they both may say they see two different things. One may say they see a rabbit whereas the other person may say they see a dog. Perception aids in a persons information process. Attention aids the impact of information in a person ’s long-term memory (Robinson Riegler & Robinson-Riegler‚ 2008). This paper will define the concept of perception and the perceptual organizational
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advancing of technology and easy access of the internet. In the following essay the merits and pitfalls of being able to access large amounts of information from the internet will be discussed as well as trying to avoid the downside of operating in an “attention economy”. The internet has many advantages. Firstly on a social level‚ websites such as facebook‚ Twitter and MySpace‚ have allowed for people all over the world to be connected. It is a cheap‚ fast and easy way of communicating. More and more
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Perception and Attention Perception is a remarkable trait. Consider human vision‚ a two-dimensional array of light appears on the retina‚ which houses the visual receptors. Instead of seeing a random collection of color dots‚ people immediately experience a rich‚ coherent‚ veridical‚ three-dimensional perception of an object‚ person‚ or event Perhaps the most astounding fact is that this occurs immediately‚ mostly outside of conscious awareness (Robinson-Riegler& Robinson-Riegler‚ 2008). Perception
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Selective attention is very important in our daily lives‚ but we are often unaware of how it really works. Therefore‚ it is worthy to explore its characteristics and functions‚ ways to control it and investigation methods. Selective attention‚ also known as focused attention‚ mainly controls our awareness of particular categories or entities in our environment. When it is involved‚ we focus entirely on one stimulus and ignore others (Elizabeth‚ 2006). For instance‚ when we are working hard on an
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have to say. However‚ not paying attention to these experienced people is actually more detrimental to us than it is to the experienced people. Paying attention to older and knowledgeable people allows for us to learn from their mistakes and helps to prevent future catastrophes. There are many examples in history to prove this. Many consider Obama to be an intelligent person and are willing to listen to him. However‚ even a great leader like Obama paid attention to an older and experienced person:
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SELECTIVE ATTENTION‚ DISTORTION AND RETENTION A motivated person is ready to act. How he motivated person actually acts is influenced by his or her view or perception of the situation. Perception is the process by which an individual selects‚ organizes‚ and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture the world. Perception depends not only on the physical stimuli‚ but also on the stimuli’s relation to the surrounding field and on conditions within the individual. The key point
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Attention Seeking All of this speech is based on my opinions. There is a popular term amongst younger people – ‘attention whore’. The Urban dictionary describes this term as an individual who will go to any lengths in order to receive attention; it does not matter whether the attention comes from positive or negative means. Now‚ the term attention whore is a negative term. People bandy the term around for anyone they deem to be engaging in [usually] negative attention seeking behaviour. THIS
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point in time. This focus requires a lot of mental effort or concentration and this is what cognitive psychologist term attention. Attention refers to the concentration and focusing of mental effort (Best‚ 1995). Focus is selective‚ divisible and shiftable. Focus is selective when we pay attention to some things and not others. It is shifable when we are able to move our attention from one thing to another and focus is divisible when we can attend to two or more activities
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Attention getter Background info Not carrying a cell phone is a negative habit to get into because it affects a person’s safety‚ privacy‚ self-esteem and communication. One effect of not carrying a cell phone is safety‚ driving a car. For instance‚ when someone is driving a car‚ it would be unsafe not to carry a cell phone. Not carrying a cell phone is not safe because an individual might find them self in a problem or even a real emergency might happen. If their car breaks down they will
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