Intro

• Importance of Attention
  • Depleted / Hijacked / Fragmented / Disconnected Attention
• What’s degrading attention
  • Mental Time Travel – more so under stress
    • Rumination in past / Worry about future (away from present)
  • Mindfulness training

Chap 1

• Working memory
• Different kinds of attention
  • Flashlight – orienting system, narrow & focused
  • Floodlight – alerting system, broad and open
  • Juggler – central executive : direct/oversee/manage

Chap 2

• Attentional Hijacking
• When our attention is deployed
  • Familiarity
  • Salience – image that has “LOOK AT ME” looking
  • Our own goal
• Three major force that degrade attention
  • Stress – eustress vs. distress
  • Poor mood
  • Threat – no focus/flashlight instead becomes stimulus-driven

Chap 3

Chap 4

• Load Theory
• Single task not multi-task

Chap 5

• Working memory
• Working Memory and Three Subsystems of Attention
  • Flashlight – vulnerable to bait & switch
  • Floodlight – roadblock
  • Juggler – ball drop
• Percentual decoupling

Chap 6

Chap 7

Chap 8

Chap 9

Chap 10

Conclusion