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Hapit na mahigumad kay ya sa
boot nagpanaw…
There
was a bus full of students going home from school. The driver had a medical
emergency and only one rider saw the event. He stood up to maneuverer the bus
into a stop saving all on board. Why is it that he was the only one to see the
event? All the rest were busy using mobile phones.
In
his 1890 book “The Principles of Psychology,” psychologist and philosopher
William James wrote that attention "is the taking possession by the mind,
in clear and vivid form, of one out of what may seem several simultaneously
possible objects or trains of thought.
Attention
is the ability to actively process specific information in the environment
while tuning out other details.
Distractions
and multitasking are generally detrimental to learning and memory. The current
experiments examined how distractions and divided attention influence one’s
ability to selectively remember valuable information (Middlebrooks, 2017).
Research
results show that there is really an effect to the brain when it is constantly
distracted. The brain can only focus on one thing and when we subject it to multiple
tasks, it adapts but will not function well.
According
to cognifit.com, focused attention is the brain's ability to concentrate
its attention on a target stimulus for any period of time. Focused attention is
a type of attention that makes it possible to quickly detect relevant stimuli.
Attention
is optimal when individuals are focused on one task at a time. However, with
many competing sources vying for our attention, multitasking has become the
norm for most [people] (Carrier, Cheever, Rosen, Benitez, & Chang, 2009).
While
smartphones and related mobile technologies are recognized as flexible and
powerful tools that, when used prudently, can augment human cognition, there is
also a growing evidence that habitual involvement with these devices may have a
negative and lasting impact on users’ ability to think, remember, pay
attention, and regulate emotion.
Thinking
or cognition is having glitches these days due to such distractions. People are
so engrossed with the gadgets they do not mind that their ATTENTION and THINKING
are degenerating.
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