Category: Awareness and Attention
What awareness and attention mean in plain terms, how they rise and fall through a day, and what the research measures.
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Kinesthetic Awareness: How Your Body Knows Where It Is
What kinesthetic awareness is, how it differs from proprioception, the tests clinicians and researchers use, how it changes with age, the CDC falls figures and what…
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Heightened Awareness: Alert, On Edge, or Something Else?
What heightened awareness means, the research term for each state people call by that name, what Yerkes and Dodson really found, caffeine and attention, and hypervigilance…
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Self Consciousness: Two Meanings and the Spotlight Effect
The everyday feeling and the 1975 scale’s three subscales side by side, the spotlight effect figures as quoted from the 2000 paper, what three studies found…
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Awareness Meaning: Why Half the Room Misses the Gorilla
The dictionary senses, the three attention networks, the philosophers’ layers, and five experiments from 1975 to 2013 showing how much we miss, with what 517 forum…
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Self Awareness Meaning: What Psychologists Actually Measure
The plain sense, then the psychology: Duval and Wicklund’s 1972 theory, the 1975 Self-Consciousness Scale, reflection versus rumination, Eurich’s internal and external split, and what four…