EF/Attention

EF/Attention

1. What you tend to pay attention to

   • yourself
     • social anxiety
       • Anxiety
   • anxiety inducing thoughts
     • superstitions
     • OCD
   • Is the only thing that can be learned
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2. Role: Not-automatic behavior

   • Mindfulness/Consciousness
   • overrides automatic behavior
   • situations employed
     • Those that involve planning or decision making
     • Those that involve error correction or troubleshooting
     • where responses are not well-rehearsed or contain novel sequences of actions
     • Dangerous or technically difficult situations
     • to overcome strong habitual response or resisting temptation.

3. Models

   • Supervisory attentional system (SAS)
     • Established schemas automatically respond to routine situations while executive functions are used when faced with novel situations.
       • In those cases attentional control will be a crucial element to help generate new schema
         • Implement these schema
           • And assess their accuracy.
   • Working Memory Model
     • Working Memory
   • Self-regulatory model
     • 1.One element is working memory that allows individuals to resist interfering information.
       • 2. management of emotional responses in order to achieve goal-directed behaviors
         • 3. internalization of self-directed speech is used to control and sustain rule-governed behavior and to generate plans for problem-solving.
           • 4. information is analyzed and synthesized into new behavioral responses to meet one’s goals