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

2 Sources in APA format

Scored: 8/8

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).