Essays Tagged: "Attention"

The Art of Persuasive Speaking

message you are trying to get across to someone.When speaking to someone you must first gain their attention. Let's face it, it's no use trying to tell a baseball fan anything if he's watching televi ... be interpreted properly or won't be interpreted at all. The volume at which you talk can be a great attention getter, if you use it right. If you walk to the front of a class and quietly ask for some ...

(2 pages) 204 1 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

HyperKinetic Children

children who show numerous amounts of inappropriate behaviors in situations that require sustained attention and orderly responding to fairly structured tasks. Humans who are hyperactive tend to be e ... children who display inappropriate overactivity (restlessness, moving around without permission) , attention deficits (distractible by task-irrelevant events, inability to sustain attention to the ta ...

(9 pages) 120 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Effective Listening Skills.

o forth, They represent common and important reasons for ineffective listening:RehearsingYour whole attention is designing and preparing "what to say next". You look interested, but your minds are mil ... istening. For example you hear a speaker discuss an idea that you don't like, you might stop paying attention to that speaker says, you might distort the message, and therefore failing to understand i ...

(6 pages) 390 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

ADD- What is ADD? How is it diagnosed?

are not aware of what ADD is and are oblivious to weather they have it. What is ADD? ADD stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. ADHD for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is another term for AD ... affect kids but also adults and teens. There are many people with ADD that have a hard time paying attention to just one thing, or keeping their mind on the most important thing. This is being distra ...

(3 pages) 149 2 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

This is paper on ADHD, symptoms, solutions, and statistics.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder known as ADHD, it i ... disorder that is found in children and can continue into adulthood. The child has the symptoms of inattention and a combination of hyperactive impulsive behavior. Some children don't develop these sym ... and self-control. If this is what happens, that is what impairs the brain functions for maintaining attention. That is why children my have trouble paying attention.There is still a search for the cau ...

(3 pages) 125 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

The brutal divide between family duty and self-preservation,between the power of love and the power of shame

t to make mistakes or pave the way. He's not the youngest so he's not the baby and he wont get that attention because the baby gets a different type of attention which is because they are the last bor ... e book goes on. He's grieving through out a large portion of the book but in his own way. Blu wants attention not only because his mother isn't there to give it to him but also because no one is able ...

(2 pages) 23 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Information Processing

lel processing have their advantages and disadvantages. Serial processing allows one to focus one's attention at a particular task, this enables him to do a better job and complete the task in very li ... poorly and make you take longer to do a task.A very important element of information processing is Attention. Attention is the process whereby one concentrates on some features of the environment to ...

(10 pages) 107 0 3.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering

"Bullies" book report for child guideance at CCCCD

ether and had a meeting with out him around. They decided they would ignore him since he just wants attention. He caused them to get kicked out of the ice cream shop. As they are leaving they tell him ... ight, colorful pictures help out some too.This book describes bullies well. It tells that they want attention and it also says that you have to not be afraid of them. I think this story could help bot ...

(4 pages) 45 0 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Explain in detail "Listening" from managment point of view?

listen intelligently at 600 to 800 words per minute (WPM). Since only a part of our mind is paying attention, it is easy to go into mind drift - thinking about other things while listening to someone ...

(2 pages) 92 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Going Away To College

(2 pages) 5 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Ads

appeals,"� by Jib Fowles talks about how advertisers use all sorts of subjects to grab ones attention. Advertisiers communicate to the reader by using selected images, which is designed to sti ... product. Advertisiers also try to appeal to all emotional appeal one may have, such as the need of attention or the need to feel safe. There have been 15 appeals found that advertisiers uses to get o ...

(2 pages) 18 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Boys achievement model exam answer

ce increasing participation. Success with poorly performing boys occurs when teachers focus student attention on concentration, task direction and completion. An example is giving the boys the task of ...

(3 pages) 13 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Free recall from short-term memory and long-term memory

meal listing on the menu at the fast-food restaurant, we rely on the mechanism of visual search and attention each and every day. The ease of search depends primarily on how distinguishable the target ... arily on how distinguishable the target of search is from the background. Often times, we depend on attention to facilitate this search for our given target. Attention can help one find an object by, ...

(5 pages) 24 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception

Land Of The Free

(4 pages) 3 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American