Psy/360 Week 1 Dq Answers

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What effect do interruptions have on the cognitive process? There are many natural fluctuations in our conscience awareness –how do interruptions effect use cognitively. Try this experiment. In one of your days keep track of your thinking process and watch what happens when you get interrupted in your thinking. Monitor distractions, interruptions, or anything that stops the flow of the process. Record that information somewhere and share your thoughts here. This is a little easier for me to answer, since I am naturally distractible to begin with (ADD). Currently, I am typing this while listening to a radio station that plays celtic music, which is there as a predictable distraction to prevent the unpredictable distractions of the television noise from the room next door to mine from snatching my attention away from what I am doing here. In the attempt to read the two chapters assigned, I initially tried to read without listening to music of any kind, but nurses coming in to take vitals, combined with beeping machines, carts rumbling by in the hallway, housekeeping coming in to change the sheets, and then the noises from the room next door when my neighbor woke up were enough to drive me to complete distraction. Some of these distractions were of course more than others, because some required that I move or get out of bed (which is a process when you have two IV's, let me tell you). It may seem strange, but the moving distractions were less of an interruption to my thought process than the simply mental distractions of noise or movement. I also had to go through a couple of different types of music before I found one that would allow me to think clearly without being an additional distraction, so it had to be something without words, but with enough tempo to cover the noises of movement and television violence. I think this takes the part of my brain that looks
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