Assignment: Attention and Consciousness

Assignment: Attention and Consciousness
Assignment: Attention and Consciousness
Assignment: Attention and Consciousness
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Assignment: Attention and Consciousness-Unlearning Through Hypnosis
Select one of the personality disorders or substance abuse disorders from the Film List.
Use the Research Analysis Job Aid to complete this assignment.
Prepare a 1,050- to 1,500-word paper that discusses research-based interventions to treat psychopathology.
Review and differentiate the characteristics of the selected disorder and discuss the research about intervention strategies for the disorder by completing the following:
Evaluate three peer reviewed research studies using the University of Phoenix Material: Research Analysis.
Conceptualize the disorder using the biopsychosocial or diathesis-stress models.
Discuss the treatments or interventions that have been shown to be the most effective for your selected disorder. Why?
Cite at least five peer-reviewed sources.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Week 1 Research Development Paper
Watch the “Attention and Consciousness-Unlearning Through Hypnosis” video located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper covering the following:
What was the purpose of this study?
How does this study apply to the real world?
If you were doing the next step in this study, which research question would you develop? How could you test it?
How could you apply the steps of the scientific method to test your hypothesis?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
1000 Words Paper
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Assignment: Attention and Consciousness
Attention and consciousness are two closely related psychological concepts that are often conflated, even among scholars. However, modern psychological and neurophysiological researchers can now independently manipulate top-down and perceptual . This allows them to untangle the distinct contributions these two make to processing in the mind and their underlying mechanisms.
Current controversies revolve around three questions
Can we become conscious of some object without attending to this object?
Can we attend to objects that are consciously suppressed, that is, invisible?
Can top-down selective attention and perceptual consciousness have opposing effects?
Although by no means conclusive, current evidence suggests that top-down attention and perceptual consciousness are two distinct but often allied processes with distinct processes. As a consequence, it will be important to distinguish the from the neuronal correlates of selective attention (Tse et al., 2005).