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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Perception Meaning of perception: It is surprising that we receive some objects and reject others. It is equally surprising that an object received is understood differently by different people. Some view a painting as beautiful while others may see the same painting as ugly. The answer is perception‚ a strong component of human organism. Definition: In its simple sense perception is understood as the act of seeing what is there to be seen. But what is seen is influenced by the perceiver
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4: Attention and Consciousness Cognitive Psychology‚ Sixth Edition‚ Robert J. Sternberg Chapter 4 Some Questions of Interest • What are some of the functions of attention? • What are some theories to explain attentional processes? • Can we actively process information‚ even if we are not aware of doing so? Cognitive Psychology‚ Sixth Edition‚ Robert J. Sternberg Chapter 4 Main Functions of Attention 1. 2. 3. 4. Signal detection and vigilance Search Selective attention Divided attention Cognitive
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encountering in their teenage years? Teenagers nowadays engage into a more intimate relationship with special people other than their friends and family. They now use the sentences: “I’m in love‚” “I love you‚” “You mean the world to me‚” and many more to express their feelings to a certain someone whom they call a boyfriend or a girlfriend. As teenagers drift away from the traditional ways of getting into a relationship like how a kiss meant a proposal for marriage‚ they now explore the things they
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is selective attention. When on the mound during a softball game‚ I selectively pay attention to the pitch I am about the throw and how I’m going to go about that pitch. I process information from one part of the environment and exclude all the other parts. I don’t notice the conversations happening on the bench or realize that my mom is on the phone while eating a pretzel. I also don’t notice my shoes pressing against my feet or the glove enclosing my hand unless I shift my attention and think about
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Dividing Attention Facilitates or Impedes Learning Dividing attention can impede learning when trying to retain new facts. This can actually impair ability to retain information or to properly interact with others. When receiving information from many different sources or interfacing with different people at the same time it is difficult to concentrate and succeed at dealing with at least one of the issues at hand. If dividing your attention among a group of activities impedes your progress
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Attention to detail is one of the most important aspects of a good soldier‚ a good officer and a good leader. The smallest of details are often the ones that can threaten the success of a mission‚ and can mean the difference between life and death. Many people can happily go about their lives with no worries about the small aspects of life that those in the military have been trained to observe. The United States military is an established institution with a history that goes back hundreds of years
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1. Perception is a method by which persons arrange and interpret their sensory thought to give meaning to their surroundings. The perception plays a very important role in organization. In organizations people actions are based on their perception of what truth is‚ not on the truth itself. Their decision might be biased or might be taken under pressure. For example Assessment of worker’s effort is a judgment subject to perceptual bias. The success of any undertaking‚ personal or business‚ largely
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Finding and Contribution According to many studies and researches over the past 30 years have shown there is an existence of a positive relationship between CSP and CFP. (Frooman‚ 1997) The data accumulated over the past 30 years do not support the latest contingency theory in the area of corporate social responsibility. (Soana‚ 2011) Some authors argue that good CFP leads to good CSP because more profitable companies have more resources for investing in socially responsible initiatives. On the
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDIA AND SOCIETY Media in any country has a significant role to play in the country’s success. Either it could help the country achieve its objectives by highlighting the problems of its citizens or it could spoil everything by diverting the attention of people from important issues towards insignificant issues. Print media has always been a dominant medium throughout the decades in the western civilization‚ but it is the emergence of the television
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