Crash Course Study Skills: Focus/Concentration

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Across
  1. 2. two words; Your environment, your tendency to seek novelty when bored, your interest in the task, your brains current state, and how long you've been focusing
  2. 4. three words; When these mechanisms eventually tire just like our body muscles
  3. 7. one word; the process of focusing your cognitive resources on one particular stimulus or source of information while ignoring all others in the environment
  4. 8. two words; Stand up, stretch, walk around a bit, get some water
  5. 10. four words; Task demands like needing to read a textbook page or solve a math problem; brain activates inhibitory mechanisms to block out competing stimuli
  6. 12. two words; Sleep, nutrients, and exercise
Down
  1. 1. three words; Your environment, your tendency to seek novelty when bored, your interest in the task, your brains current state, and how long you've been focusing
  2. 3. one word; Trying to do more than one task at a time
  3. 5. two words; When you switch your attention to some task A to task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow
  4. 6. four words; Automatically focused attention due to stimuli in the environment
  5. 9. two words; 7 hours of sleep per night, eat healthy, try to exercise at least once a day
  6. 11. two word; Doing a fun, easy task to distract your mind for a bit