Class 16 - Attention and Information-Processing

Question 1

ADHD misconception

Answer 1

ADHD is not the inability to entirely pay attention its to the inability to stay focused due to paying attention to things that grab their focus.

Question 2

Attentional process

Answer 2

Attentional capacity (no ADHD)

INITIAL response to stimuli

SUSTAINED FOCUS paying attention to task at hand

SELECTIVE FOCUS blocking out irrlevent stimuli

EXECUTIVE FOCUS control/plan attention

kids with ADHD have issues with selective and executive attention

Question 3

Attention hardware

Answer 3

ALERTING NETWORK- 2 months achieveing and maintaing sensitivity to stimuli. its refelxive in newborns they will look at anything in their way that grabs their attention.

ORIENTING NETWORK- 4 months selection of information to attend to. more cognitively draining for younger kids relative to preschoolers

EXECUTIVE ATTENTION-monotoring and regulating attention. evident in toddlers gradually through out adolesence.

Question 4

Attention software

Answer 4

attentional software improves when we gain experiance and develope strategies to manage our attention.

mayan children have better sustained attention from american kids because teir paresnta allow them to go get groccerys at young age which allows them to plan their thinking and allows them to develope strategies which results in a improvement of software attention.

Question 5

3 forms of attention

Answer 5

SUSTAINED FOCUS-paying attention to task at hand for long period of time
infants focus on anything that catches their attention. by 9-10 months babys have joint attention they are able to pay attention to toy and mom at the same time.
toddlers 2+have decreased attention to anything random that catches their eye however they are still easily distracted due to poor inhibition.
sustained attention plateus around age 10 this is where myelantion of brainstem ocuurs in the frontal cortext

SELECTIVE FOCUS-blocking out irrlevent stimuli
improves through out elemantry school
important for educational success and skill developement
children show meta attention they understand its easier to focus on one thing at once but they still struggle to act on it.

EXECUTIVE FOCUS-control/plan attention young children are better at regulating attention when the task is in the story or when done with a partner

Question 6

interpreting research Attention,visual and learning

Answer 6

Children learned in both decorated and non decorated rooms however they learned more in the undecorated classroom.