Attending

Examples of Attending in the following topics:

• Selection

  • Selection, the first stage of perception, is the process through which we attend to some stimuli in our environment and not others.
  • How do we know what to attend to and what to ignore?
  • Selection is the process by which we attend to some stimuli in our environment and not others.
  • Long-term motivations also influence what stimuli we attend to.
  • This shows that infants selectively attend to specific stimuli in their environment.

• The Receiving Stage

  • The first stage of the listening process is the receiving stage, which involves hearing and attending.
  • The first stage of the listening process is the receiving stage, which involves hearing and attending.
  • Paired with hearing, attending is the other half of the receiving stage in the listening process.
  • Attending is the process of accurately identifying and interpreting particular sounds we hear as words.
  • Attending also involves being able to discern human speech, also known as "speech segmentation. "1 Identifying auditory stimuli as speech but not being able to break those speech sounds down into sentences and words would be a failure of the listening process.

• Introducing the Perception Process

  • Whether or not we know it, we selectively attend to different things in our environment.
  • First we select the item to attend to and block out most of everything else.
  • In this case, we have chosen to attend to the image.
  • Some individuals see a vase because they attend to the black part of the image, while some individuals see two faces because they attend to the white parts of the image.
  • When we attend to one specific thing in our environment—whether it is a smell, a feeling, a sound, or something else entirely—it becomes the attended stimulus.

• The Bottom Line: Family Background

  • Children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
  • Not only do wealthier students tend to attend better-funded schools, but they often also benefit from family background characteristics.
  • So it is not surprising that children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.

• Homeschooling

  • Most homeschooled children are homeschooled only, but about one in five are also enrolled in public or private schools, which they may attend for 25 hours or less each week.
  • Every state has some form of a compulsory attendance law that requires children in a certain age range to spend a specific amount of time being educated.
  • The most common way for parents to meet these requirements is to have their children attend public school.
  • In other states, the requirements for homeschooling are set by the particular parameters of the compulsory attendance statute.
  • Other states allow homeschoolers to compete for the public schools that they would otherwise attend by virtue of their residence.

• Education and Liberty in the Developing World

  • Therefore, child's gender continues to contribute to access and attendance today.
  • High opportunity costs are often influential in the decision to attend school.
  • Gender contributes to a child's lack of access and attendance to education.
  • Costs contribute to a child's lack of access and attendance to primary education.
  • High opportunity costs are often influential in the decision to attend school.

• Short-Term Memory

  • In the cup example, if I attend to the cup, it will be moved into STM.
  • For example, I might attend to the cup and think, "That's my cup.
  • You perceive and attend to stimuli; that information is then actively processed based on information stored in LTM.

• Politics

  • Bush and John Kerry both came from wealthy families, held graduate degrees, and had attended Yale University, an elite Ivy League institution.
  • Political participation refers to whether or not a person votes in elections, donates to campaigns, or attends public forums where decisions are made, such as town meetings or city council meetings, for example.
  • For example, if one attends a public forum, is their opinion likely to be heard, or if they donate money, is a politician likely to support their desired policy?

• Unconscious Perception

  • We encounter more stimuli than we can attend to; unconscious perception helps the brain process all stimuli, not just those we take in consciously.
  • Individuals take in more stimuli from their environment than they can consciously attend to at any given moment.
  • The brain is constantly processing all the stimuli it is exposed to, not just those that it consciously attends to.

• Migration

  • Close to 37% of Americans have never moved from the community in which they were born.There are wide variations in native inhabitants, however: 76% of Texans were born in-state while only 14% of Nevadans were born in-state.Some states lose a large number of people who were born in the state as well, like Alaska, where only 28% of the people born in that state have remained there.Immigration is often a controversial topic, for a variety of reasons, though many have to do with competition between those already living in the destination location and those arriving in that location.One recent study finds that one type of competition between immigrants and non-immigrants may be overstated.Some people have suggested that natives' opportunities to attend college are negatively impacted through competition with immigrants.Neymotin (2009) finds that competition with immigrants does not harm the educational outcomes of U.S. natives and may in fact facilitate college attending.