the open university = Attention

1. Statement of participation
Prasad Shevate
has completed the free course including any mandatory tests for:
Attention
This 10-hour free course explored how we 'pay attention': how we manage to
single out sounds and images and how easy is it to distract someone.
Issue date: 2 April 2018
www.open.edu/openlearn
This statement does not imply the award of credit points nor the conferment of a University Qualification.
This statement confirms that this free course and all mandatory tests were passed by the learner.
Please go to the course on OpenLearn for full details:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/attention/content-
section-0
COURSE CODE: DD303_1

2. Attention
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/attention/content-
section-0
Course summary
What does 'attention' mean to you? This free
course, Attention, will help you to examine how
we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single
out sounds and images that require attention and
how easy is it to distract someone and why.
Learning outcomes
By completing this course, the learner should be
able to:
understand different cognitive psychological
aproaches used to examine such forms of
attention as attention to regions of space,
attention to objects and attention for action
summarise the different cognitive
psychological approaches under a fairly
abstract definition of the term
understand how ideas about attention have
changed and diversified over the last fifty years
and how well they have stood up to
examination.
Completed study
The learner has completed the following:
Section 1
Auditory attention
Section 2
Visual attention
Section 3
Integrating information in clearly-seen displays
Section 4
Attention and distraction
Section 5
The neurology of attention
Section 6
Concluding thoughts
Section 7
Further reading
Section 8
Conclusion
http://www.open.edu/openlearn COURSE CODE: DD303_1
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