APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fine Motor Skill, Automaticity, Simon Effect
8 Nov 2018
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Direction in which you are focusing your resources. Focus on roughly one thing at a time, selecting what to focus on (bang in the. Choose where the attention goes, (how tired you are) (hears your name, only. Only focus on soo much at one time room, everyone hears) Texting and driving uses the same pool of attention (interference) Longer we are looking for something the worst we will get a spotting what we are looking for. Focus so hard on something that you miss, something obvious. Focusing on two task, lowers the ability to do tasks efficiently. Once first task, become automatic, doing a second task at the same time is easy. Ex. shooting dart in bullseye (very specific focus on the intended action. Ex. when shooting dart, focused on angle of elbow, or how the dart feels. Better to focus on effective on movement rather than the body part involved. How efficient a person can perform a move.
