An Exploration Into the Capacity of … Um … Yeah …
Attention and distraction. As university students, never have we been so familiar with the two. One minute you are touch typing fantastic study notes, whilst reading the upcoming slides and acknowledging the lecturer. The next you are in another world. Most probably a digital one. Arranging to catch up with our friends after the lecture for a coffee, though where is the best place on campus for a coffee? Suddenly however you drift back into the surrounding of the lecture hall trying to catch up with what you have missed. The decrease of attention spans in younger generations is often credited to the rise in technologies. Now one would think that technology has made us brilliant multi-taskers though as Microsoft has researched, it appears that human attention spans have dropped below the level attributed to a goldfish. Previously, I had just thought that there was attention and distraction, however as Sohlberg and Mateer have suggested, attention can be understood in three different forms, these being sustained, selective and alternating. Sustained attention is more commonly referred to …