Thresholds According To Treisman's Attenuation Theory

1.Absolute Threshold: the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time.

Now the theme of light is a lot like this. It is impressed because of compassion, freedom, and power. In literary works it is

Attention is something that people can crave or something that people may need. Too much of it could lead to a boost of unneeded ego, leading to someone that is overly cocky, and too little of it can lead to a lack of self esteem. In the books Confetti Girl, and Tortilla Sun, attention something that the books revolve around using different points of view. These books use the narrator and compare their point of view their parent's point of view. These books compare points of view to get the idea that either a lack of, or a surplus of attention can lead to unwanted things.

Not only does the focal point draw attention away from the unsightly device that powers it, the device itself looks ill maintained and unorganized; the mess of wires and the shadow the device casts invokes the dark truth: without this attractive device, the lights would cease to function, and without one, the other would lose its

gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than luster of the

This assignment was challenging because I do not watch television, go to movies, or listen to music. It is not that I am against these activities, but I have difficulty hearing varying tones and cannot easily discern words within recordings.

The three kinds of focus that Goleman mentions in the video (1) inner focus, (2) empathy and (3) outer focus. Goleman's inner focus, states that when a person focuses on one item at a time that’s significant to them and ignore all things that trouble's them, they are able to manage life. However, empathy is when leaders show passion and concern for another person. The meaning of outer focus, focus on the world, how the choices that people make can have an enormous impact on their lives.

Many individuals with dyslexia struggle remembering what they have heard and if a person has the problem of the inability to retain verbal information Payne and Turner, (1999, p. 136), then it is very important to have a hearing test Wood, (2011, p. 69). Where the result of the test is normal then it is more likely to be a kind of dyslexia named Auditory Processing Deficit. A considerable number of experts in the field of dyslexia agree that auditory processing deficit has direct impact on dyslexia, for example, Chivers, (2006, p. 37) mentioned that a lot of children with dyslexia have auditory processing troubles where she based in her argument on Tomatis’s test for hearing ( a test where a device called Electronic Ear was used). Likewise,

two sections are identified as the “Intelligible,” and the “Visible.” The sections are then each

Attention is considered to be a core cognitive process, it refers to how people actively process specific information in the environment. Attention refers to how people select from information and stimuli in the environment, facilitating processing of some of the stimuli and inhibiting processing of others. "Everyone knows what attention is, it is the taking possession by the mind in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought...It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state. “This definition of attention was proposed by psychologist William James (1890). This review will focus on literature that gives explanation to selective attention. Selective attention refers to the process where a person is able to select out of many stimuli and focus on the one they want and ignore other stimuli.

· Recognizing objects and sounds around the person and what they mean, this is called Agnosia.

Word recognition involves an individual’s ability to identify words independently without requiring related words for contextual help. A widely examined topic in the field of cognitive psychology, it deals with understanding printed letters as a word which has been kept in the lexicon. The word frequency effect is important in the recognition of words. It suggests more common words in printed language are easier, faster and more accurate to distinguish than words that appear less frequently. Outlined in their journal article, Howes and Solomon utilized Thorndike-Lorge’s word count for word frequency and measured the threshold of recognition. They found correlation coefficients of -.68 to -.75 between word frequency and threshold or duration.

Target fixation occurs when excessive focus on an object causes the operator of a vehicle to collide with the object. The term was first used during World War II to describe fighter pilots who flew into the very targets they were strafing.

Low levels of processing include operations like counting the letters in words and higher levels of processing might include forming semantic relationships such as understanding what the words’ meaning is. According to Craig and Lockhart who formulated this theory memory recall would improve as the information is processed in greater depth. However it has been hard to define exactly what depth is and it has been found that there are other factors that make people remember things. (Zachmeister, E.B., Nyberg 1982)

Focus is a major element in expository writing. It dictates the central link between content in writing. Though focus is present in most works the use of focus in each work can vary greatly. Popular magazine publications all have a focus but each publication demonstrates focus in different ways.