- We have three kinds of attention processes (attention being a concentration of mental activity) – divided attention, selective attention and saccadic eye movements. I think with all three processes it was shown that it is more difficult to do two things at once, but you can be trained to get better at it. Different parts of our brain control different kinds of attentions. Consciousness is awareness and is related to attention. Research suggests that there are many things we are aware of but you may not be able to put that awareness into words.
- Attention process need to be used in order to have top-down processing, face perception, background on visual object, etc… You have to be able to attend in order to have perception.
- Is the Stroop Effect related to color only? Can you be born with a brain lesion?
- The saccadic eye movement intrigues me because I have a student who I think has visual tracking problems. So I guess her saccadic eye movements are not working properly. How does one fix this?
- I thought the neuroscience research was pretty validating. I find all of the workings of the brain fascinating. The brain lesion section was interesting.
6and 7 This is important because it gives me more information as to how my students may be processing things. I would like to look at my ADHD students with this chapter in mind. I hope it will give me more insight as to how I can best serve them.
- This question is still confusing to me.
Personal reflection – I have a hard time wrapping my brain around page71 in my book (I the sixth edition). I don’t think I would be able to read and take dictation simultaneously. Were these students able to comprehend what they read? Can the low to average ability student be trained to do this? What does the training look like?
In response to your question "Is the Stroop Test related to color only?" I did some extra reading about the Stroop test and there are other versions. I found examples of three other varations:
ReplyDelete1)directional (a box has the word LEFT written in it, but the subject is to tell where it is. So if LEFT is written on the right then the reply is right, but they are interfered with by the work left.)
2) number (a word is written a given number of time and that is what the subject is to answer, so for instance "one, one, one" means three.)
3) animal (the animal picture is different than what is written again interference.)
Hopefully that helps!
Jill,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement about consciouness and awareness. I recently was formally evaluated at school. I found myself typing seven pages of what I do during a thirty minute period of time. I am usually never conscious of doing all of those things until I have to put it down on paper. I also connected that to the way my children watch television. They are completely aware of the show, but I don't think they are conscious of what they are eating or drinking while they watch.
Your comment about the brain leisons also intrigued me. I only know from Hunter's epilepsy that they often look for leisons in epileptic children. Hunter's MRI didn't reveal any, but they said that anyone can have some. I was told that they could have been in place before the child was born while the brain was developing. This made me wonder if some of sour truggling students might have more going on with their minds than we ever thought.
I also struggle with the question about what could be more effective.
In response to your question pertaining to saccadic eye movement issues. I think they have to test the student for any visual problems first (I guess whiplash patients sometimes have problems with this). I've also heard of reading specialists teaching visual cues to the reader (specialized books, etc).
ReplyDeleteFor Question 8, you have to (usually) think smaller than the whole chapter, perhaps just a section. How about if I said "Given the different types of selective attention we have studied, which one would be fastest, cheapest, useful, and most effective to implement/use for you?"
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks Beth for those Stroop effect examples, those are good. The point of the Stroop effect is that people take a long time to process information when there is a mismatch between how a word looks visually, and what a word means semantically. The fact that it takes people longer to process means something is happening cognitively, and the textbooks discusses different explanations.